HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 5230 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. On request, counsel for the applicant is permitted to correct the name of the applicant in the memo of bail application. 2. Office is directed to correct the name of the applicant in the computer records. 3. Heard Shri Alok Singh Chandel, learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. 4. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.550 of 2016, under Section 302, 201, 506 IPC, P.S. Gudamba, District Lucknow. 5. In terms of the FIR it was alleged that the informant was married to the applicant around three years ago and subsequently, on account of some dispute, the applicant hit the mother of the informant with a knife which resulted in the death of the mother. It was also alleged that the body was disposed off by the applicant. 6. In the light of the said allegation, submission of learned counsel for the applicant is that out of the total 31 witnesses, only 4 witnesses have been examined and the applicant is in detention since 31.07.2017. The applicant has criminal antecedents of 2 cases out of which in once case the applicant has been acquitted and in other case, he is on bail. 7. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ganga Prasad Mishra, Abhinav Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Rafiq Rizvi @ Rafiq Khan @ Arjun Singh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 8. Considering the pre-trial detention suffered by the applicant of almost more than eight years coupled with the fact that there is no likelihood of the trial being concluded in the near future, the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 9. Let the applicant Rafiq Rizvi @ Rafiq Khan be released on bail in aforesaid FIR number on his furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of the like amount 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 15, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 5230 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench