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2025 DAILYLAW 166253 (ALL)

RAVI SHANKAR OJHA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME, LKO.

BAIL/9045/2025 · 2025-09-24

Subhash Vidyarthi

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9045 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Amit Kant Saxena, the learned counsel for the applicant as well as Sri Mayank Sinha, the learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.455/2024, under Sections 316(2), 316(5), 61(2) B.N.S, registered at Police Station- Vibhuti Khand, District- Lucknow. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of F.I.R. lodged on 22.12.2024 against three persons including the applicant, stating that the complainant had got tickets booked from a company named Rosy Travels and Events for travel of 13 passengers from Bangalore to Dubai and for 259 passengers from Goa to Bangalore for a total consideration of Rs.12,38,500/- but 11 tickets for Bangalore to Dubai and Dubai to Bangalore and 36 tickets from Bangalore to Goa and Goa to Bangalore were fake. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is an innocent person, he has been falsely implicated in the present case merely because he was an employee in Rosy Travels and Events. The applicant's involvement in one other case has been disclosed in the paragraph no.15 of the affidavit filed in support of present application. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Amit Kant Saxena, Avinash Mishra, Rahul Roshan Dubey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ravi Shankar Ojha .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home, Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 5. It has further been submitted that a co-accused, namely, Santosh Kumar Yadav has already been granted anticipatory bail by means of an order dated 23.05.2025 passed by a Coordinate Bench of this Court in Criminal Misc. Anticipatory Bail Application No.129 of 2025. 6. The learned A.G.A. has opposed the bail application and he has submitted that the allegations have been established during investigation and a charge sheet has been submitted on 05.06.2025. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that applicant has been implicated in the present case merely because he was an employee in Rosy Travels and Events coupled with the fact that he is languishing in jail since 11.01.2025, whereas the investigation already stands concluded, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for enlargement of the applicant on bail. 8. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 9. Let the applicant- Ravi Shankar Ojha be released on bail in aforementioned case on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of Magistrate/Court concerned, subject to the 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 24, 2025 V. Sinha BAIL No. 9045 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- VAISHALI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench