HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11233 of 2025 Court No. - 15 HON'BLE KARUNESH SINGH PAWAR, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant and learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. Supplementary Affidavit filed by learned counsel for the applicant is taken on record. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.118 of 2025, under Sections 318(4), 319(2), 351(4), 317(2), 61(2)b B.N.S and Section 66-D of Information Technology Act, registered at Police Station Cyber Crime, District Lucknow. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of F.I.R. lodged on 18.07.2025 stating that some unknown accused persons digitally arrested the complainant, who is a 73 years old woman and extracted Rs. 56 lakhs from her. 4. The police claimed to have arrested one Chitransh Kunwar and the applicant was accompanying the aforesaid co-accused person at the time of his arrest and, therefore, the applicant has also been arrested. Rs.100/- are said to have been recovered from the personal search of the applicant along with his credit card, Aadhaar card and PAN card, all of which belong to him. 5. A co-accused person Mohammad Shameem Ansari, was granted stay on his arrest by means of an order dated 05.08.2025 Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ujjwal Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Anupam Singh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) passed by a Division Bench of this Court in Criminal Misc. Writ Petition No. 7081 of 2025. 6. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is an innocent person, he has been falsely implicated in the present case and he has no criminal history. It has also been submitted on behalf of the applicant that the co- accused Mohd. Zaid has already been granted bail by this court by means of an order dated 16.09.2025, passed in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No.8838 of 2025. The other co-accuse Mohan Kumar @ Mohan Kumar Rawat has also been granted bail by coordinate Bench of this court vide order dated 17.9.2025 passed in Bail Application No.8925 of 2025. He seeks parity with the bail order of the said co-accused. 7. The learned A.G.A. has opposed the bail application and has submitted that the investigation in the matter is still going on. However, on the basis of material provided to him, he stated that the applicant has been arrested because he was accompanying co-accused Chitransh Kunwar at the time of his arrest and that Rs.100/- are said to have been recovered from the personal search of the applicant along with his credit card, Aadhaar card and PAN card, all of which belong to him. He has further stated that till this time, no other material has come to light against the applicant. 8. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as also the bail order of the co-accused persons, named above, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for enlargement of the applicant on bail. 9. Accordingly, this bail application is allowed on the ground of parity. 10. Let the applicant-Anupam Singh be released on bail in aforementioned case on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of Magistrate/Court concerned, subject to the following conditions: - BAIL No. 11233 of 2025 2 (i) the applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence; (ii) the applicant shall not pressurize the prosecution witnesses; (iii) the applicant shall appear on each and every date fixed by the trial court. Any other condition(s) which the trial court/concerned court may deem fit and proper, in the circumstances of the case, may also be imposed. It is clarified that the observations made in this order are confined to the present bail application and shall have no bearing on the merits of the trial. November 18, 2025 Madhu D.R/P.S BAIL No. 11233 of 2025 3 (Karunesh Singh Pawar,J.) Digitally signed by :- MADHU KUMARI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench