ARVIND KUMAR v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.
BAIL/6131/2025 · 2025-10-15
Pankaj Bhatia
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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 6131 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned AGA for the State. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.154 of 2025 under Sections 80(2), 85 IPC and Section 3/4 of DP Act, P.S.- Sandila, District- Hardoi. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was married to the applicant. Subsequently, on account of non-payment of dowry, she was killed. The cause of death as per the post-mortem report is ante-mortem hanging. It is further argued that the applicant is the husband and the co-accused persons have already been enlarged on bail by the Co- ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 24.06.2025 passed in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No.5549 of 2025. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering the facts and circumstances and the post-mortem report, and there being nothing specific against the applicant who is in custody since 11.05.2025 and has no previous criminal antecedent and the co-accused persons have already been granted bail, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant- Arvind Kumar be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to her furnishing a personal bond and two Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Aditya Kumar, Anita Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Gulam Ali Rashidi, Ram Chandra Dwivedi, Uday Pratap Singh Arvind Kumar .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s)
reliable sureties 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 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 V. Sinha BAIL No. 6131 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VAISHALI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- VAISHALI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench