HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11599 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 and Sri Shailendra Kumar Tiwari, who has filed Vakalatnama on behalf of the informant. The Vakalatnama is taken on record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.342 of 2025, under Sections 80(2), 85, 352, 351(3) of BNS and Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, Police Station Satrikh, District Barabanki. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was married to the applicant 4 years ago. Subsequently, on account of non-payment of dowry, she was killed by the matrimonial family. The cause of death, as per the postmortem report, was ante mortem hanging. Apart from the ligature mark, no other injury was seen on the body of the deceased. The applicant is the husband of the deceased. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the postmortem report and there being nothing against the applicant to suggest that soon before her death, the victim was subjected to any physical or mental harassment in relation to any demand of dowry and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 17.07.2025, 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) : Sangeeta Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Virendra Kumar @ Virendra Yadav .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 6. Let the applicant Virendra Kumar @ Virendra Yadav be released on bail in the abovesaid first information report number on his furnishing personal bonds and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- 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. 11599 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench