HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 504 of 2024 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Rejoinder affidavit filed today in Court is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. 3. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.378 of 2023, under Section 302, 201 IPC, P.S. Kotwali Sadar, District Unnao. 4. In terms of the FIR it was alleged that relative of the informant used to stay at Unnao and went missing. Subsequently, her body was found. The applicant is husband of the deceased. 5. It is argued by learned counsel for the applicant that on the date of the incident, an altercation took place in which the applicant was beaten by the deceased and out of anger and frustration, the applicant hit her which resulted in her death. Postmortem report, on record, indicates the cause of death as ante mortem strangulation. The application is in custody since 18.05.2023 and has no criminal antecedents. 6. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 7. Considering the fact that mens rea for prosecuting the application is apparently missing coupled with the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is suffering from pre-trial detention of more than 2 & 1/2 Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ashok Kumar Verma, Himanshu Suryavanshi, Prem Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ramlakhan Singh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) years, the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 8. Let the applicant Ramlakhan Singh be released on bail in aforesaid FIR number on his furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of 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 12, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 504 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench