HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11712 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 applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.414 of 2023, under Section 302 IPC, P.S. Hujoorpur, District Bahraich. 3. In terms of the FIR lodged against four persons it was alleged that daughter of the informant aged about 17 years was attacked by the persons named in the FIR and was killed. Cause of death, as per the postmortem report, is antemortem injuries which are five in number. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant argues that the applicant was not even named in the FIR and subsequently, based upon the mobile message sent on the phone of the deceased from the phone number of the applicant, the applicant was linked with the offence and a motive was alleged on the said basis only. 5. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 6. Considering the fact that there are no eyewitnesses to the incident who have supported the version against the applicant and the applicant is linked based upon a message coupled with the fact that the applicant is in custody since 18.10.2023 and has no criminal antecedents and trial has not even started, the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Manoj Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Mahesh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home U.P. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 7. Let the applicant Mahesh be released on bail in aforesaid FIR number on his furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of 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 14, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 11712 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench