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2025 DAILYLAW 173239 (ALL)

ABHIMANYU SHUKLA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.

BAIL/8850/2024 · 2025-11-06

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8850 of 2024 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.187 of 2023 under section 460 IPC, P. S. Laharpur, District Sitapur. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that at the night of 16/17.03.2023, the son of the informant was sleeping with his wife in a room of the terrace, when some unknown person climb through stairs and killed the son of the informant with the use of any sharp edged weapon. No one was named in the FIR. Subsequently, on the basis of the apprehension of the applicant in another manner, the applicant was linked with the offence in question based upon his confessional statement. The cause of death, as per the postmortem report, is seven incised stab wounds. The recovery shown from the applicant is a country made pistol, certain ornaments and Rs.850/-, however there is no recovery of an instrument. 4. Considering the fact that there is no recovery of any weapon, which can be linked with the nature of the injuries reflected on the body of the deceased coupled with the fact that the applicant was linked based upon the confessional statement, the applicant who is in custody since 25.05.2023 and the criminal history has been duly explained in para 14 of the bail application, the applicant is entitled for the bail. Thus the bail Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sushil Pandey, Akhil Anand, Kaushal Kishore Tewari Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Abhimanyu Shukla .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Abhimanyu Shukla be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions: (a) The applicant shall execute a bond to undertake to attend the hearings; (b) The applicant shall not commit any offence similar to the offence of which he is accused or suspected of the commission; and (c) The applicant shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence. November 6, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 8850 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench