HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 34047 of 2025 Court No. - 70 HON'BLE SANTOSH RAI, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned AGA for the State- respondents and perused the record. 2. This bail application has been moved on behalf of accused-applicants Rakesh Kumar and Raj Kishore Kutar seeking enlargement on bail in Case Crime No.523 of 2022, under Sections 409 IPC, Police Station Civil Lines, District Prayagraj. 3. Learned counsel for the applicants submits that the accused-applicants have not committed any offence as alleged in the FIR and have been falsely implicated in this case due to ulterior motive. Applicants are languishing in jail since 26.8.2025. It is submitted that the applicants are employees of U.P.S.R.T.C. It is further submitted that an amount of Rs.1,30,079/- has already been recovered from the applicants by U.P.S.R.T.C. in support of which required certificates of the concerned department are already available on record. It is argued that the applicants have no criminal antecedents. It is further argued that since charge-sheet has already been submitted in this case, therefore, there is no reasonable possibility of intimidating or pressuring the prosecution witnesses. 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. 4. Learned AGA has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail and submits that he has no instructions regarding the fact that whether any other Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Rajendra Prasad Pandey, Shyam Surat Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Rakesh Kumar And Another .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) punishment has been imposed upon the applicants by the concerned department or not but he admits the fact that recovery has been made by the concerned department from the accused applicants. 5. Having considered the submissions of the parties noted above, finding force in the submissions made by the learned counsel for the applicants, 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 applicants involved in the aforesaid crime be released on bail on their furnishing personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions that:- (i) The applicants shall not tamper with the evidence or threaten the witnesses. (ii) The applicants shall file an undertaking to the effect that they 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 applicants shall remain present before the Trial Court on each date fixed, either personally or as directed by the Court. In case of their absence, without sufficient cause, the Trial Court may proceed against them under Section 229-A IPC/269 BNS. (iv) In case the applicants misuse the liberty of bail during trial and in order to secure their presence, proclamation under Section 82 Cr.P.C./84 of BNSS is issued and the applicants fail to appear before the Court on the date fixed in such proclamation then the Trial Court shall initiate proceedings against them in accordance with law under Section 174-A IPC/209 of BNS. (v) The applicants 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 applicants are deliberate or without BAIL No. 34047 of 2025 2 sufficient cause, then it shall be open for the Trial Court to treat such default as abuse of liberty of bail and proceed against them in accordance with law. 6. 6. In case, of breach of any of the above conditions, it shall be a ground for cancellation of bail. 7. Identity and residence proof of the applicants and sureties be verified by the court concerned before the bonds are accepted. October 17, 2025 RA BAIL No. 34047 of 2025 3 (Santosh Rai,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAZIQ ALI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad