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2025 DAILYLAW 200518 (ALL)

SADHNA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.

/4233/2025 · 2025-10-13

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 4233 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Anurag Singh who appears for the informant as well as learned AGA. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.0091 of 2025 under sections 316(2), 108, 351 (3) BNS, P.S. Jaidpur, District Barabanki. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the husband of the informant was a businessmen who was given certain amount in advance. Subsequently, on account of the harassment meted out by the accused including the applicant, he committed suicide by consuming poison. 4. In the statement of the informant, which has been filed along with the counter affidavit, the said version was reiterated . 5. Considering the said allegations, prima-facie the abetment of an offence under section 108 BNS is not made out in view of the law as explained in the case of Mariano Anto Bruno and another vs. Inspector of Police; 2022 SCC Online SC 1387 coupled with the fact that the applicant is aged about 54 years and has no criminal antecedents except one case which is under section 306, 323, 504 IPC in which he is on bail, the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Sadhna be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to her furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Virendra Kumar Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Anurag Singh Sadhna .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 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 she 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. 4233 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench