HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 7310 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.44 of 2025, under Sections 103(1), 124(1) of BNS, Police Station Laliya, District Balrampur. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that two accused named in the FIR came to the home of the informant, where the father was sleeping and on account of old enmity, they sprinkled diesel and set fire, because of which, he subsequently died. The applicant was not named in the FIR. The accused named in the FIR are the sons of the applicant. Subsequently, however, on the basis of the statement of one of the witnesses, the applicant was named in the offence in question. 4. In the light of the aforesaid allegations, the Counsel for the applicant draws my attention to the statement recorded subsequently wherein again the name of the applicant did not surface. The applicant is aged about 65 years and has three criminal cases, in which, the applicant is on bail. Two of the said cases are minor offence. 5. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 6. Considering the statement of the informant; prima facie, the FIR, which Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Vijay Pathak, Rakesh Pathak Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Sandeep Singh, Santosh Kumar Dwivedi Basant Lal @ Vasudev .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) does not implicate the applicant despite the fact that the family of the informant and the applicant had old enmity; the age of the applicant is 65 years coupled with the fact that the applicant 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 Basant Lal @ Vasudev 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 4, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 7310 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench