RAJ KUMAR @ JHUGGI LAL v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME DEPTT. LKO.
BAIL/8526/2025 · 2025-09-09
Subhash Vidyarthi
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8526 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J.
1. Heard Shri Farooq Ayoob, learned counsel for the applicant, Shri Virendra Kumar, learned A.G.A.-I for the State and perused the records. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.290 of 2025, under Sections 3/5A/8 of U.P. Cow Slaughter (Prevention) Act & Section 11 of Animal Cruelty Act, registered at Police Station Para, District Lucknow. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 19.04.2025 against three persons, not including the applicant, stating that the aforesaid persons were caught while they were accompanying the container truck in which 34 cow progenies were loaded. 4. In their custodial statement, they stated that the applicant is the owner of the truck. This statement finds mentioned in the narration of the F.I.R. yet the applicant was not made an accused in the F.I.R.
5. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. The applicant's involvement in another criminal case has been disclosed in the affidavit in which he has already been granted bail. 6. The learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that two named co- accused persons Israel and Mohd. Naseem have been granted bail in the present case and the copies of their bail orders have been annexed as annexure No.3 to the affidavit filed in support of the bail application. 7. Learned A.G.A.-I has opposed the bail application and he has submitted Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Farooq Ayoob, Mansi Gupta Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Raj Kumar @ Jhuggi Lal .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s)
that the investigation in the matter is still going on. 8.
Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that although it is mentioned in the F.I.R. that the truck in question belongs to the applicant, the applicant was not made an accused in the F.I.R. and two persons named in the F.I.R. have already been granted bail, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for enlargement of the applicant on bail in the aforesaid crime. 9. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 10. Let the applicant - Raj Kumar @ Jhuggi Lal - be released on bail in the aforementioned case on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of Magistrate/Court concerned, subject to following conditions:- (i) the applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence; (ii) the applicant shall not pressurize the prosecution witnesses; (iii) the applicant shall appear on each and every date fixed by the trial Court. September 9, 2025 S. Shivhare BAIL No. 8526 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- SHASHANK SHIVHARE High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench