HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9229 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Ramakar Shukla, the learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Mohd. Asif Khan, learned AGA-I, Sri Anil Kumar Tiwari, learned counsel for the complainant and peruse the records. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 491/2025, under Sections 319(2), 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 351(2), 61(2) BNS, Police Station Kotwali Nagar, District Sultanpur. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 16.06.2025 against seven persons, including the applicant, stating that the complainant had appeared in UPSC Prelims Examination in the year 2022. Co-accused Pranav had assured him to get selected in UPSC Examination and on his instructions, the complainant transferred Rs. 26.50 lakh to various bank accounts of co-accued Bajrang (father of the co-accused Pranav) and he also transferred Rs. 7 lakh in the bank account of the applicant, who is a neighbor of co-accused Pranav. The co-accused Pranav gave a forged appointment letter to the complainant. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of the 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 case relating to Sections 323, 504, 506 & 452 IPC has been disclosed in paragraph 13 of the affidavit filed in support of the application in which he has already been released on bail. 5. Learned AGA-I has opposed the application and he has submitted that the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ramakar Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Anil Kumar Tiwari, Satyam Tiwari Manish Dwivedi .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko .....Opposite Party(s) investigation against the applicant is still going on. 6. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that it is the complainant himself who tried to secure public employment by illegal means; that the FIR has been lodged when the complainant failed in this endeavour; the only allegation against the applicant is that Rs. 7 lakhs were transferred to his bank account on the instructions of co-accused Pranav Dwivedi and there is no allegation that the applicant had demanded any money, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for enlargement of the applicant on bail. 7. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 8. Let the applicant- Manish Dwivedi 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 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 Pradeep/- BAIL No. 9229 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- PRADEEP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench