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2025 DAILYLAW 187192 (ALL)

PARTH MAHANA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. ADDL. CHIEF SECY./PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.

BAIL/10966/2025 · 2025-11-15

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 10966 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State and Sri Barjinder Singh who appears for the informant. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.488 of 2025 under sections 115(2), 80(2), 352, 85 BNS and section 3/4 DP Act, P.S. Krishna Nagar, District Lucknow South, Commissionerate Lucknow. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was married to the applicant and has been killed on 19.10.2025. It was stated that the marriage was solemnised through a website and thereafter she was being harassed by the entire matrimonial family for dowry. The cause of death, as per the postmortem report, is ante-mortem hanging and apart from the ligature mark, no other injury was observed on the body of the deceased. The applicant is the husband. 4. Considering the post-mortem report and there being no specific allegation against the applicant of having caused the mental or physical harassment to the deceased soon before her death in relation to demand of dowry, the applicant who is in custody since 22.10.2025 and has no criminal history is entitled for the bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Parth Mahana be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to her furnishing a personal bond and two Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Nadeem Murtaza, Ishika Srivastava, Sheeran Mohiuddin Alavi, Wali Nawaz Khan Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Parth Mahana .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy./Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) each of the like amount 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 15, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 10966 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench