HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8720 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Dinesh Chandra Shukla, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Prashant Tripathi, learned Additional Government Advocate 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. 307 of 2022, under Sections 420/406/506 I.P.C., registered at Police Station Inayatnagar, District Ayodhya. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 05.07.2022 stating that the informant had given money to the applicant for being invested in SSG Group of Companies but no return was paid to him. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of bail application it has been stated that the applicant is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. It has further been stated that the complainant had paid Rs.5,00,000/- by transferring the money in the applicant's bank account, the applicant has paid Rs.15,000/- per month to the complainant for 56 months and thus he has already returned Rs.8,40,000/- to the complainant. 5. The applicant's involvement in 11 other criminal cases has been disclosed in para 13 of the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, in three of which the applicant has been granted bail, in Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Dinesh Chandra Shukla, Vishal Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party(s): G.A. Ranjeet Maurya .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) two cases closure report has been filed by the Investigating Officer and in one case the bail application of applicant is said to be pending. The applicant has no information regarding other criminal cases indicating that he has not received any summon as yet. 6. The learned Additional Government Advocate appearing on behalf of the State has opposed the prayer for bail and he has submitted that the allegations have been established during investigation and a charge sheet has been filed on 25.09.2022. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that the allegation levelled in the F.I.R. prima facie make out a case of non-payment of some returns on the investments made in a company, whereas the applicant claims to have refunded Rs.8,40,000/- as against the invested amount of Rs.5,00,000/-; that the dispute inherently appears to be to be civil in nature, whereas is languishing in jail since 12.06.2025 and the investigation already stands concluded and without making any observation, which may affect the merits of the case, 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. 8. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 9. Let the applicant-Ranjeet Maurya be released on bail in the aforesaid 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, unless his appearance is exempted by the learned trial court. September 12, 2025 Ram. BAIL No. 8720 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAM SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench