HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 14346 of 2023 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.665 of 2022, under Sections 302, 376D IPC, Police Station Ram Sanehi Ghat, District Barabanki. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that some unknown person had killed the mother of the informant aged about 57 years when she was out of home. As per the postmortem report, the cause of death is due to ante mortem strangulation. 4. In the light of the aforesaid, the Counsel for the applicant draws my attention to the statement of the medical officer who stated that no internal injury was found on the body of the deceased. There are no eyewitness of the incident. The applicant has been linked with the offence in question based upon the confessional statement. The applicant has no criminal case prior to the offence in question. Subsequently, the applicant was challaned in four criminal cases. 5. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 6. Considering the fact that the applicant has suffered pretrial detention of more than four and a half years and the evidence to link the applicant, Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Nisha Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Amrendra Rawat .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Civil Sectt. Lko .....Opposite Party(s) prima facie, is weak, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 7. Let the applicant Amrendra Rawat 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. November 20, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 14346 of 2023 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench