HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11223 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.183 of 2024, under Sections 302, 201 IPC, Police Station Mankapur, District Gonda. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the applicant and the elder brother of the informant were working as a labourer and on the date of incident, the elder brother of the informant and the applicant had gone to the market for purchasing chicken meat and subsequently, the applicant returned in a state of intoxication and admitted that he had killed and burnt the brother of the informant. 4. In the light of the abovesaid allegations, the Counsel for the applicant draws my attention to the postmortem report, wherein, the cause of death was ante mortem throttling and apart from the confessional statement, there is no evidence to link the applicant with the offence in question and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is in custody since 21.04.2024. 5. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 6. Considering the nature of the evidence against the applicant coupled with the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 21.04.2024, I am of the view that the applicant is Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Pradeep Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Amit .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed . 7. Let the applicant Amit 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. October 29, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 11223 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench