HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8635 of 2024 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. 2. This is the second application for bail of the accused-applicant seeking enlargement on bail in FIR/Case Crime No.256 of 2021 under sections 498- A, 304-B, 323, 504, 506 IPC and section 3/4 DP Act, P.S. Mitauli, District Lakhimpur Kheri. The first application for bail was rejected on 15.03.2024. 3. The FIR in question was lodged alleging that the daughter of the informant was married to the applicant. Subsequently, she was killed for non-payment of dowry. The applicant is the husband and is in custody since 31.07.2021 and has no criminal history apart from the present case. 4. It is argued that the fact witnesses have already been examined and their deposition is on record wherein they have stated that they did not see the applicant hitting the wife. 5. Irrespective of the said fact, the fact remains that the fact witnesses have already been examined and the applicant has suffered pretrial detention of more than four years and has no criminal history, as such, on that ground alone, the applicant is entitled for the bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Netram be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Santosh Kumar Kanaujia Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Netram .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 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. 8635 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench