HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8709 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Shri Ravi Singh, learned counsel for the applicant, Shri Satyendra Srivastava, learned A.G.A. for the State. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.197 of 2025 under Sections 8/20/29/60 of NDPS act, 1985 registered at Police Station- Jahangir Ganj, District- Ambedkar Nagar. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 12.07.2025 by the Inspector In-charge against three persons, including the applicant, stating that on the basis of information received from a mukhbir, a Car was intercepted in which the other accused persons Ranvijay Rajbhar and Rampravesh Rajbhar were sitting. 80.300 Kg of Ganja in 33 bundles, kept in a secret chamber in the Car, was recovered. The persons arrested stated that they were going to deliver the Ganja to the applicant. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is serving as Head Master in Composite School in District- Azamgarh, he is an innocent person and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. 5. The applciant's involvement in another criminal case under Sections 147/148/149/336/323/504/506/427 and Section 7 of Criminal Law Amendment Act has been disclosed in para-21 of the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, in which the applicant has been granted bail by means of an order dated 07.01.2005 6. Learned A.G.A. has vehemently opposed the bail application and he has submitted that investigation of the case is still going on. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ravi Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ashok Yadav @ Ashok Kumar Yadav .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) keeping in view the fact that even as per the FIR version, the substance was recovered from the other two accused persons and the applicant was not present in the Car from which the substance was recovered; the applicant has been implicated merely on the basis of custodial statement of co-accused persons and no incriminating material has been recovered from him; that the applicant is a 56 years old Head Master of a Government School and there appears to be no reasonable apprehension of his absconding from the process of law, 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 case. 8. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 9. Let the applicant- Ashok Yadav @ Ashok Kumar Yadav 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 12, 2025 -Amit K- BAIL No. 8709 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- AMIT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench