HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 4757 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.0168 of 2024 under sections 302, 201, 34 IPC and section 4/25 Arms Act, P.S. Kunda, District Pratapgarh. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that one named person and two unknown person including a female had committed the murder of the brother of the informant. The applicant was not named in the FIR. Subsequently, the informant gave a statement that the deceased was having relations with the applicant for which an FIR was also lodged being case crime no.67 of 2024 under sections 354-B, read with section 376-D, 323, 504, 506 IPC and on account of the said case, the applicant had committed the offence in question. 4. Learned AGA draws my attention to the statement of the witness who had seen the applicant at the place of incident. Subsequently, the said witness has resile from the said statement as is clear from the statement made by the said witness during the trial and contained at page 100 of the bail application. 5. In view of the said statement recorded during the trial, prima-facie, apart from the assertions made by the informant, the material to link the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Mohd. Salman, Ana Fatma Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., P.K. Singh Bisen Sarita Saroj .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) applicant with the offence in question is a weak piece of evidence coupled with the fact that the applicant has no criminal history and is in custody since 09.06.2024, he is entitled for the bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Sarita Saroj be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties 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 13, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 4757 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench