HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9178 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Supplementary affidavit filed by the learned counsel for the applicant is taken on record. 2. Heard Mr. Syed Ahmad Mehdi, the learned counsel for the applicant as well as Ms. Shikha Sinha, the learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 3. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.183 of 2025, under Section 3/5Kha/8 of UP Prevention of Cow Slaughter Act, 1955, registered at Police Station- Khandasa, District- Ayodhya. 4. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of F.I.R. lodged by Sub-Inspector of Police on 24.08.2025 stating that three accused persons were apprehended on the basis of information received from a mukhbir that they were preparing to slaughter a cow. The other two persons absconded and the applicant was arrested on the spot. He confessed that he, along with the other accused persons, was preparing to slaughter a cow. 5. 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. The applicant's involvement in 3 other cases has been disclosed Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Syed Ahmad Mehdi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Guddu @ Mukhtar .....Applicant(s) State Of. U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Civil Sectt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) in the affidavit, in 2 of which, he has been granted bail and in 1 case, he has not received summon. The applicant's involvement has also been disclosed in one other case in the supplementary affidavit, in which, he is on bail. 6. The learned A.G.A. has opposed the bail application and she has submitted that the allegations have been established during investigation and investigation in the present case is still going on. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that no slaughter has been committed in the present case; the alleged recovery has not been witnessed by any person coupled with the fact that the applicant is languishing in jail since 24.08.2025, whereas the investigation is still going on, 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- Guddu @ Mukhtar 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 25, 2025 V. Sinha BAIL No. 9178 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- VAISHALI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench