CHANDAN v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.
BAIL/9751/2025 · 2025-10-10
Pankaj Bhatia
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9751 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record.
2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.19 of 2025 under sections 87, 352, 351(2), 108 BNS, P.S. Bewana, District Ambedkar Nagar.
3. In terms of the FIR lodged through an application under section 173(4), it was alleged that the daughter in law of the informant fled with the applicant leaving her daughter behind. Subsequently, it was alleged that the daughter in law died. The cause of death, as per the postmortem report, is antemortem hanging. The applicant was thereafter arrested and is being tried for an offence under section 108 BNS.
4. The submission of the counsel for the applicant is that no abetment of suicide as defined under the BNS was either alleged or exists against the applicant.
5. Considering the said submissions as well as the law as explained in the case of Mariano Anto Bruno and another vs. Inspector of Police; 2022 SCC Online SC 1387 a case for bail is made out particularly when the applicant has no criminal history and is in custody since 12.06.2025. Thus the bail application is allowed.
6. Let the applicant Chandan be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ramakar Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Chandan .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s)
Crime Number subject to his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) each of the like amount 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. October 10, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 9751 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench