HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9478 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Counter affidavit filed by learned AGA for the State is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned AGA for the State. Whereas, no one has put in appearance on behalf of the informant despite notice. 3. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.0224 of 2025 under Sections 108 BNS, P.S.- Dalmau, District- Raebareli. 4. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the applicant is the wife of the deceased and she was having an affair which was being objected by her husband (deceased). It was stated that the person with whom the applicant was having an affair, had beaten up the applicant, because of which, he committed suicide. The dying declaration on record indicates that the co- accused used to threaten the deceased, because of which, he wanted to commit suicide. The cause of death as per the post-mortem report is ante- mortem hanging. 5. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 6. Considering the facts and circumstances and the post-mortem report, suicide note of the deceased, prima facie, abetment at the instance of the applicant as defined in Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita is missing coupled with the fact that the applicant is in custody since 23.08.2025 and has no previous criminal antecedent, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Shishir Pradhan Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ritika Pandey .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 7. Let the applicant- Ritika Pandey be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to her furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) each of the like amount 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 she 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 her from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence. November 3, 2025 V. Sinha BAIL No. 9478 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VAISHALI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench