HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 2165 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 applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.222 of 2024, under Section 498A, 304B IPC & Section 3/4 of D.P. Act, P.S. Nawabganj, District Gonda. 3. In terms of the FIR it was alleged that daughter of the informant was married to the applicant. Subsequently, the entire matrimonial family had killed her. Cause of death, as per the postmortem report, could not be ascertained. Subsequently, in the viscera report, poison was found. The applicant is husband of the deceased. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering the postmortem report and there being nothing on record to demonstrate that soon before her death the victim was harassed mentally or physically at the instance of the applicant in relation to demand of dowry, the applicant who has no criminal antecedent and is in custody since 31.05.2023 is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Darshan Lal be released on bail in aforesaid FIR Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Anjani Kumar Shukla, Kamlesh Kumar Yadav, Mukesh Kumar Tewari, Pankaj Verma Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Darshan Lal .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home U.P. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) number on his furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of 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 27, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 2165 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench