SAURABH VERMA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. SECY. HOME , LUCKNOW
BAIL/639/2024 · 2025-11-03
Pankaj Bhatia
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 639 of 2024 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.445 of 2023, under Sections 302, 323, 504 IPC, Police Station Gosaiganj, District Lucknow.
3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that on 29.09.2023 at about 7:30 PM (night), some unknown persons took his son on a motorcycle and badly beaten up.
4. The Counsel for the applicant draws my attention to the subsequent statement of the eyewitness recorded on 14.11.2024 contained as Annexure-1 to the rejoinder affidavit, wherein, he has not supported the prosecution story.
5. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer.
6. Considering the said statement of the eyewitness not supporting the prosecution story and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 01.10.2023, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Dhananjai Kumar Tripathi, Bhoopal Singh, Devendra Verma, Harshit Singh, Kavita Yadav, Nitin Verma, Samrat Gupta, Shubh Sri Kanha, Surya Vijay Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Atul Kumar Yadav Saurabh Verma .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home , Lucknow .....Opposite Party(s)
7. Let the applicant Saurabh Verma 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 3, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 639 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench