MOHIT v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.
BAIL/9514/2025 · 2025-10-07
Pankaj Bhatia
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9514 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J.
1. Heard Shri Anurag Singh, learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material available on record. Supplementary affidavit, filed by learned counsel for the applicant, is taken on record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in F.I.R./Case Crime No. 31 of 2025, under Sections 103(1), 61(2A), 238(A) of B.N.S., 2023, Police Station Manpur, District Sitapur. 3. The first information report of this case was lodged with the allegation that the wife of the brother of the informant was in affair with co-accused no.2 Badshah Alam and when, the brother of the informant came to know, a conspiracy was hatched by all the co-accused and, subsequently, the brother of the informant was killed and the body was thrown in the canal. It was also stated that the wife of the brother of the informant had lodged an F.I.R. of missing person, only to cover up her offence subsequently, the body of the brother of the informant was recovered with knife injuries on the neck, which was also the result of the death. 4. The submission of counsel for the applicant is that, the applicant has been implicated with the offence in question, solely based upon his confessional statement in which to, he had confessed that he had caught hold of the victim and, the offence was committed by Ravi. 5. Learned A.G.A. states that the weapon in question was recovered at the instance and pointing out of the applicant, as is evident from the recovery memo. 6. Considering the fact that, in terms of the F.I.R., no motive was assigned to Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Anurag Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Mohit .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s)
the applicant to have committed the offence in question, even in the confessional statement, there is no confession with regard to the commission of the offence by the applicant and, the recovery is not in the presence of any independent witnesses, as such, the applicant, who is in custody since 04.07.2025 and has no criminal antecedents, is enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the bail application is allowed. 7.
Let the applicant- Mohit be released on bail in aforesaid FIR number on his furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of like amount 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 7, 2025 Praveen BAIL No. 9514 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- PRAVEEN KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench