ALLU @ RAVINDRA SONKAR v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.
BAIL/2514/2025 · 2025-10-31
Pankaj Bhatia
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 2514 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State and Mr. Bhuvan Dwivedi, learned counsel for the informant. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.166 of 2024 under Sections 498A, 304-B, 302 IPC and Section 3/4 of DP Act, P.S.- Kotwali Nanpara, District- Bahraich. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was married to the applicant. Subsequently, on account of non-payment of dowry, she was killed. 4. In the light of the said, learned counsel for the applicant has drawn my attention to the inquest report wherein, prima faice, opinion was expressed that death was occurred on account of sustaining injuries. The post mortem report indicates two contusion injuries on the head which according to the applicant are natural injuries sustained by the deceased. The applicant is in custody since 31.03.2024 and has criminal history of one case, in which, he is on bail. 5. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 6. Considering the facts that prima facie, the injuries reflected on the post- mortem report are required to be established as having been inflicted by the applicant coupled with the fact that the applicant is in custody since 31.03.2024 and has criminal antecedent of one case, in which, he is on Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Manoj Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Allu @ Ravindra Sonkar .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s)
bail, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 7.
Let the applicant- Allu @ Ravindra Sonkar 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. October 31, 2025 V. Sinha BAIL No. 2514 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VAISHALI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench