HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8645 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.257 of 2023 under sections 498-A, 304-B IPC and Section 3/4 DP Act, P.S. Kunda, District Pratapgarh. 3. In terms of the FIR, allegations were levelled that the daughter of the informant was married to the applicant in the year 2022. Subsequently, however, the entire matrimonial family had killed her. The cause of death, as per the postmortem report, is head injury. The applicant is the husband and is in custody since 08.08.2023. 4. A report has been sent by the trial court stating that the charge was framed against the applicant on 13.02.2024 and thereafter the statement of PW-1 and PW-2 have already been examined. 5. Considering the said report, prima-facie, there is no likelihood of the trial being concluded in the near future, as such, the applicant who has no criminal antecedents and has suffered pretrial detention of about two and half years, the applicant is entitled for the bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Safiya Abid, Anand Dubey, Atiya Abid, Govind Kumar Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Vimlesh Kumar Patel .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Civil Secy. Lko .....Opposite Party(s) 5. Let the applicant Vimlesh Kumar Patel be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) 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 7, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 8645 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench