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2025 DAILYLAW 162770 (ALL)

SALMAN KHAN v. THE STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. AND ANOTHER

NABAIL/1190/2025 · 2025-09-08

Subhash Vidyarthi

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. - 1190 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Suresh Kumar Yadav, learned counsel for the applicant as well as Sri Angad Kumar Vishwakarma, learned A.G.A. appearing on behalf of the State and perused the records. 2. The instant application has been filed by the applicant seeking anticipatory bail in F.I.R. bearing Case Crime No. 45/ 2025, under Sections 87, 142 of BNS and Section 3/5 of U.P. Prohibition of Unlawful Conversion of Religion Act, 2021, Police Station Ramganj, District Amethi. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 02.05.2025 against four persons, including the applicant, stating that the informant's daughter aged 22 years had left her home at about 10;00 a.m. on 24.04.2025 but she did not return back. The informant came to know that the accused persons used to meet his daughter and he suspected that they had made her disappear. 4. In the statement of the victim recorded under Section 180 B.N.S.S., she stated that she had gone to Ramganj without informing any person where she met co-accused Shahzad Khan and she went with him to Saudi Arab. A similar statement was given by the victim before the Magistrate also wherein she stated that she had gone to Saudi Arab with co-accused Shahzad out of her own free will. In the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Suresh Kumar Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Salman Khan .....Applicant(s) The State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) additional statement of the victim recorded under Section 183 B.N.S.S. also, she did not level any allegation against the applicant. 5. In the affidavit filed in support of the anticipatory bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is innocent, he has been falsely implicated in the present case and she has no criminal history. 6. The learned counsel for the application has submitted that a co- accused person Arman Ali has been granted interim anticipatory bail by means of order dated 10.07.2025 passed by a coordinate bench of this Court in Anticipatory Bail Application No. 840/2025. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the statements of the victim wherein she has not levelled any allegation against the applicant, coupled with the fact that the applicant has no criminal history, I am of the view that the applicant is also entitled to be granted anticipatory bail. 8. In view of the above, the anticipatory bail application of the applicant is allowed. In the event of arrest/ appearance of applicant- Salman Khan before the learned Trial Court in the aforesaid case crime, they shall be released on anticipatory bail on their furnishing personal bond and two solvent sureties, each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of S.H.O./Court concerned on the following conditions and subject to any other conditions that may be fixed by the Trial Court: (i). that the applicant shall make themselves available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required; (ii) that the applicant shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence; (iii) that the applicant shall not leave India without the previous permission of the court. (iv) that the applicant shall appear before the trial court on each date fixed, unless personal presence is exempted; and NABAIL No. 1190 of 2025 2 (v). that the applicant shall not pressurize/ intimidate the prosecution witness. September 8, 2025 Pradeep/- NABAIL No. 1190 of 2025 3 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- PRADEEP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench