HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 3921 of 2025 ALONG WITH CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 1799 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned AGA for the State; Shri Amit Kumar Gupta, learned counsel for the informant and perused the record. 2. The applicants seek enlargement on bail in FIR No.369 of 2024, under Section 191(2), 191(3), 190, 103(2), 249, 61(2) BNS, P.S. Hardi, District Bahraich. 3. Learned counsel for the applicants argues that the applicants were not Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sheikh Mohammad Ali, Manoj Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Bal Krishna Shukla Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sheikh Mohammad Ali, Manoj Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Bal Krishna Shukla Mohammad Shoaib .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) Khursheed Ahmad .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Home Govt. Of U.P. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) named in the FIR. Subsequently, based upon the statement of one witness, name of applicants surfaced. Even in the said statement, no specific role was assigned to the applicants. It is argued that on the same ground, a co-accused whose name was not mentioned in the FIR and surfaced in the statement was enlarged on bail vide order dated 17.09.2025. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. As the allegations against the applicants and the material based upon which they have been implicated are similar, the applicant namely Mohammad Shoaib who has no criminal antecedents and applicant namely Khursheed Ahmad who has one case of criminal antecedents in which he is on bail, are entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicants Mohammad Shoaib and Khursheed Ahmad be released on bail in aforesaid FIR number on their furnishing a personal bond each with two sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of court concerned with the following conditions: (a) The applicants shall execute a bond to undertake to attend the hearings; (b) The applicants shall not commit any offence similar to the offence of which they are accused or suspected of the commission; and (c) The applicants 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 4, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 3921 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench