HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 6687 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.253 of 2024, under Sections 103(1), 238 of BNS, Police Station Sandila, District Hardoi. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that on 08.08.2024, the informant had seen an unidentified dead body of a female aged about 20-22 years. Based upon the said information, the investigation was carried out and the applicant was linked with the offence in question. The applicant is the step-father of the deceased. 4. It is argued by the Counsel for the applicant that a missing person report was lodged by the wife of the applicant on 07.08.2024 stating that the daughter was missing. Subsequently, when the body was found, the applicant and his wife identified the body and thereafter on the basis of presumption that the applicant had committed the offence for grabbing the property was linked and arrested. The confessional statement of the applicant was recorded. 5. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 6. Considering the fact that the applicant was linked with the offence Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Karuna Shanker Rastogi, Ayush Pratap Singh, Devendra Pratap, Saad Husain, Shashank Shekhar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Manoj Kumar .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) based upon the confessional statement coupled with the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 07.04.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 7. Let the applicant Manoj Kumar 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 28, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 6687 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench