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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 31386 of 2025 Court No. - 65 (Sr. No.153 out of 259) HON'BLE KRISHAN PAHAL, J.
1. List has been revised. Learned State Law Officer has informed that the notice to the informant has been served on 03.09.2025. 2. Heard Sri Prayageshwar Kumar Upadhyay, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Jai Kishan Chaurasia, learned State Law Officer for the State and perused the material placed on record. Learned counsel for the informant is not present. 3. Applicant seeks bail in Case Crime No.203 of 2025, under Sections 70(2), 351(3) BNS and 5G/6 POCSO Act, Police Station Deogaon, District Azamgarh, during the pendency of trial. 4. Learned counsel submits that similarly placed co-accused, Riyaz Ansari, has been granted bail by this Court vide order dated 24.03.2026 in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No.29637 of 2025, hence, the applicant, having an identical role and no criminal history, is entitled to bail on parity. He is in jail since 12.06.2025 and will not misuse the liberty of bail. 5. The prayer for bail has been vehemently opposed by learned State Law Officer. However, the aforesaid factual aspect of the parity to the co-accused has not been disputed by him. 6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and in light of the judgement passed by this Court in Nanha S/o Nabhan Kha vs. State of Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Prayageshwar Kumar Upadhyay, Ankit Srivastava, Rajeev Trivedi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : Chandan Kumar Chaturvedi, G.A.
Ajeet Sharma .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s)
U.P., 1993 Crl.L.J. 938 and the judgements passed by the Supreme Court in Paras Ram Vishnoi vs. The Director, Central Bureau of Investigation, MANU/SCOR/22410/2021 and in Satender Kumar Antil vs. Central Bureau of Investigation and Another, (2022) 10 SCC 51, the Court is of the view that the applicant has made out a case for bail. The bail application is allowed on the ground of parity. 7. Let the applicant- Ajeet Sharma, be released on bail on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties to the satisfaction of the court concerned, subject to verification of sureties, with the conditions that he shall not tamper with evidence or intimidate witnesses and shall appear before the trial court as required. 8. Breach of any condition shall entail cancellation of bail.
The observations herein shall not affect the trial on merits. April 23, 2026 (Ravi Kant) BAIL No. 31386 of 2025 2 (Krishan Pahal,J.) Digitally signed by :- RAVI KANT High Court of Judicature at Allahabad