HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 1531 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.60 of 2024, under Sections 302, 120B IPC, Police Station Gudamba, District Lucknow. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that one Neeraj has been killed by his wife and her lover. The applicant is not named in the FIR. Subsequently, his name was surfaced in the statement of the co-accused i.e. wife of the deceased wherein she stated that the applicant had caught hold one leg of the deceased and committed the said offence. The cause of death as per the postmortem report is ante mortem throttling. The child of the deceased, who had supported the prosecution also, had been declared hostile. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the fact that the material to implicate the applicant is prima facie weak coupled with the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 19.02.2024, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Pradeep Kumar Verma, Devendra Bahadur Yadav, Vivek Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Yashveer Prakash Gautam @ Raj @ Jasbeer .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home U.P. Civil Secretariat Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 6. Let the applicant Yashveer Prakash Gautam @ Raj @ Jasbeer be released on bail in the abovesaid first information report number on his furnishing personal bonds and two reliable sureties of the like amount each 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 26, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 1531 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench