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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 30975 of 2025 Court No. - 67 HON'BLE KRISHAN PAHAL, J.
1. List has been revised.
2. Heard Sri Satish Sharma, learned counsel for applicant, Sri Mahesh Kumar Sahu, learned counsel for the informant, Sri Arun Kumar Mishra, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material placed on record.
3. The present bail application has been filed by the applicant in S.T. No.2429 of 2024 arising out of Case Crime No.523 of 2024, under Sections 118(2) and 103(1) B.N.S., Police Station Naini, District Prayagraj with the prayer to enlarge him on bail.
4. There is dying declaration of the deceased person, whereby the applicant is stated to have set his wife (deceased) afire.
5. After hearing learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the fact that there is dying declaration of the deceased person, I do not find it a fit case for grant of bail to the applicant. The bail application is found devoid of merits and is, accordingly, rejected.
6. However, it is directed that the aforesaid case pending before the trial court be decided expeditiously as early as possible in view of the principle as has been laid down in the recent judgments of the Supreme Court in the cases of Vinod Kumar vs. State of Punjab; 2015 (3) SCC 220 and Hussain and Another vs. Union of India; (2017) 5 SCC 702, if there is no legal impediment. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Satish Sharma Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Mahesh Kumar Sahu, Vijai Prakash Neeraj Yadav .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s)
7. It is clarified that the observations made herein are limited to the facts brought in by the parties pertaining to the disposal of bail application and the said observations shall have no bearing on the merits of the case during trial. October 15, 2025 (Ravi Kant) BAIL No. 30975 of 2025 2 (Krishan Pahal,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAVI KANT High Court of Judicature at Allahabad