HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 3542 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.343 of 2024, under Section 103(1) BNS, P.S. Dostpur, District Sultanpur. 3. In terms of the FIR allegations were levelled that son of the informant was working with a finance company as a collecting employee and subsequently, went missing and on 09.12.2024 his body was recovered. It was apprehended that some unknown person had killed him. It was also stated that the motorcycle and the bag containing Rs.77,700/- was also found alongwith the body. Subsequently, the applicant was linked with the offence based upon the statement of the informant and the confessional statement of the applicant which is on record as Annexure - 4 wherein Rs.200/- was recovered from the applicant and it was confessed that on account of financial problems, the deceased was creating pressure on him because of which he allegedly committed the offence in question. Recovery of Rs.77,700/- near the body of the deceased is unexplained. Recovery is also not in the presence of any independent witness. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Anuj Kumar Singh, Iqbal Ahmed Ahmedullah, Paritosh Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Veena Gupta Pritesh @ Pinku Pandey (In Charge Sheet Pritesh Pandey Urf Pinku ) .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 5. Considering the nature of the evidence to link the applicant with the offence in question to be primarily weak, the applicant who has no criminal antecedents and is in custody since 12.12.2024 is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Pritesh @ Pinku Pandey 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. December 4, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 3542 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench