HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 10547 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Supplementary affidavit and rejoinder affidavit filed today in Court are taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State; Shri Dadu Ram Shukla, learned counsel for the informant and perused the record. 3. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.121 of 2025, under Section 61(2), 103(1), 3(5) of BNS Act, P.S. Madayganj, District Lucknow. 4. In terms of the FIR it was alleged that brother of the informant aged about 25 years was working as a security guard and on account of an earlier murder that had taken place, all the three accused were planning for killing the brother of the informant and subsequently on 27.06.2025 all the three co- accused caused the offence after hitting him with a sharp edged instrument. The applicant was not named in the FIR. Subsequently, on the basis of the confessional statement and the statement of the co-accused, name of the applicant surfaced. The applicant was assigned the role of waiting in the vehicle. Main allegation was assigned to the co-accused and not to the applicant. One of the co-accused Shabana who was also not named in the FIR was enlarged on bail vide order dated 10.10.2025. 5. Although, the applicant does not claim parity with the said co-accused, the fact remains that the applicant was linked to the offence solely based upon a confessional statement in which too the role of causing the actual offence Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Saurabh Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Dadu Ram Shukla (D.R. Shukla ), Manoj Kumar Singh Anil Kumar Sonkar .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) was not assigned to the applicant. 6. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 7. Considering the aforesaid, the applicant who is in custody since 04.07.2025 and has no criminal antecedents, is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 8. Let the applicant Anil Kumar Sonkar 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 10, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 10547 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench