HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9451 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Sri Sudhir Singh Raghuvanshi, the learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Angad Kumar Vishwakarma, 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-accused Bajrang (father of the co-accused Pranav) and he also transferred Rs. 80,000/- in the bank account of the applicant, who is a friend 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, he has been falsely implicated in the present case and he has no criminal history. 5. The learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that a co-accused Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sudhir Singh Raghuvanshi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Shreyansh @ Nitesh Agrahari .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) Manish Dwivedi has been granted bail by means of an order dated 25.09.2025 passed by this Court in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No. 9229 of 2025. 6. the learned AGA has opposed the bail application and he has submitted that the investigation against the applicant is still going on. 7. 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. 80,000/- 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 and that a co-accused has already been granted bail, I am of the view that the applicant is also entitled to be granted bail on the ground of parity. 8. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 9. Let the applicant- Shreyansh @ Nitesh Agrahari 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 26, 2025 V. Sinha BAIL No. 9451 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- VAISHALI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench