HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 10419 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.146 of 2025, under Sections 103(1) of BNS, Police Station Inayatnagar, District Ayodhya/ Faizabad. 3. In terms of the FIR, allegations were levelled that the father of the informant used to perform Puja and on 06.04.2025, some unknown person had killed him with sharp edged weapon. No one was named in the FIR. Subsequently, the applicant was linked with the offence based upon the confessional statement of the applicant and the similar statement given by the applicant before a Panchayat Member, wherein, it was stated that when the daughter of the applicant was seen in a compromising position with the deceased and on account of anger, the applicant allegedly beaten him which resulted in his death. 4. The Counsel for the applicant draws my attention to the statement of one of the witnesses, who had stated that the deceased used to involve in a occult practice and a lot of female use to come to him. It was also alleged that the deceased used to meet the females inside the room alone. No recovery from the applicant has been effected. 5. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Indra Pratap Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Rohit Kumar Chaurasia .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 6. Considering the fact that there are no eyewitness of the incident; the applicant was not named in the FIR; no recovery was effected from the applicant and the evidence to link the applicant with the offence is question to be prima facie weak and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 15.04.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 7. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 7. Let the applicant Rohit Kumar Chaurasia 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. December 11, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 10419 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench