HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 35681 of 2025 Court No. - 70 HON'BLE SANTOSH RAI, J. 1. Supplementary affidavit filed, today in Court, on behalf of the applicant is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State- respondents and perused the record. 3. This bail application has been moved on behalf of accused-applicant Amit Dubey seeking enlargement on bail in Case Crime No.204 of 2025, under Sections 364-A 323, 342, 506, 406 IPC, Police Station Mohammadabad, District Farrukhabad. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the accused-applicant has not committed any offence as alleged in the FIR and has been falsely implicated in this case. Applicant is languishing in jail since 4.7.2025. It is submitted that applicant and other co-accused persons are the members of the same family and are named in the FIR. As per the FIR the incident has occurred on 11.2.2020 but the FIR has been registered on 4.7.2025 after a period of more than five years and no transaction of any amount has been mentioned in the FIR. It is further submitted that co-accused Abhishek Dubey @ Jeetu has filed SLP (Crl.) No.14237 of 2025 before the Supreme Court, wherein an arrest order has been passed in favour of the co-accused. It is argued that no specific and separate role of applicant has been assigned in the FIR and the abducted person, who was aged about 45 years at the time of incident returned back to his home after four days. It is further argued that inspite of the above fact the FIR has been lodged at a very belated stage for which no plausible explanation has been furnished. It is lastly submitted that Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Durgesh Kumar Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : Anurag Dubey, G.A. Amit Dubey .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) applicant has 18 criminal history which has been explained in para 26 of the bail application as well as in the supplementary affidavit. Submission is that the conclusion of trial will take sufficiently long and there is no likelihood of his fleeing from course of justice or tampering with evidence in case of release on bail. Hence, bail has been prayed for. 5. Learned AGA has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail but could not dispute the aforesaid submission. 6. Having considered the submissions of the parties noted above, finding force in the submissions made by the learned counsel for the applicant, keeping in view the uncertainty regarding conclusion of trial; larger mandate of the Article 21 of the Constitution of India, considering the paragraph no.53 of Apex Court in the case of Manish Sisodia Vs. Directorate of Enforcement 2024, (SC) LawSuit 677 and considering 5-6 times overcrowding in jails over and above their capacity by under trials and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, let the applicant involved in the aforesaid crime be released on bail on his furnishing personal bond and two heavy sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions that:- (i) The applicant shall not tamper with the evidence or threaten the witnesses. (ii) The applicant shall file an undertaking to the effect that he shall not seek any adjournment on the dates fixed for evidence when the witnesses are present in Court. In case of default of this condition, it shall be open for the Trial Court to treat it as abuse of liberty of bail and pass orders in accordance with law. (iii) The applicant shall remain present before the Trial Court on each date fixed, either personally or as directed by the Court. In case of his absence, without sufficient cause, the Trial Court may proceed against him under Section 229-A IPC/269 BNS. (iv) In case the applicant misuse the liberty of bail during trial and in order to secure his presence, proclamation under Section 82 Cr.P.C./84 of BNSS is issued and the applicant fails to appear before the Court on the date fixed in such proclamation then the Trial Court shall initiate proceedings against him in accordance with law under Section 174-A IPC/209 of BNS. BAIL No. 35681 of 2025 2 (v) The applicant shall remain present in person before the Trial Court on the dates fixed for (i) opening of the case, (ii) framing of charge and (iii) recording of statement under Section 313 Cr.P.C./351 of B.N.S.S. If in the opinion of the Trial Court absence of the applicant is deliberate or without sufficient cause, then it shall be open for the Trial Court to treat such default as abuse of liberty of bail and proceed against him in accordance with law. 7. In case, of breach of any of the above conditions, it shall be a ground for cancellation of bail. 8. Identity and residence proof of the applicant and sureties be verified by the court concerned before the bonds are accepted. October 15, 2025 RA BAIL No. 35681 of 2025 3 (Santosh Rai,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAZIQ ALI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad