Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:70986 Court No. - 68 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 10076 of 2025 Applicant :- Sonu Verma @ Chandra Prakash Verma Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Anil Kumar Pathak Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Ashutosh Srivastava,J. 1. Heard Sri Anil Kumar Pathak, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Arimardan Yadav, learned AGA for the State-respondents and perused the record. 2. This bail application under Section 483 BNSS has been moved on behalf of accused-applicant, Sonu Verma @ Chandra Prakash Verma, seeking enlargement on bail in Case Crime No. 27 of 2025, under Sections 318 (4), 338, 336 (3), 340 (2) BNS and Section 63 of the Copy Right Act, Police Station Kakadev, District Kanpur Nagar. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant argued that the accused- applicant is innocent. He has been falsely implicated in this case crime number and is languishing in jail since 08.02.2025. He has no criminal antecedent and there is no likelihood of his fleeing from course of justice or tampering with evidence in case of release on bail. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has not committed the above crime. The fard recovery of above said paan masala as well as other articles have not been prepared in present of any independent witness as such the said recovery is bad in the eye of law. Applicant is not involved in the business of selling/manufacturing of duplicate paan masala as such the section 318 (4) and section 63 of Copy Right Act is not made out against the applicant. Nothing has been recovered from the possession of the applicant or his pointing out and the police has wrongly shown the recovery of the aforesaid articles from the house of the applicant. The applicant was not present at the time of alleged recovery. The applicant has nither prepared the rapper of SNK pan masala and Kesar paan masala nor kept any machine as well as raw material as alleged in the present case. It is next submitted that the Priyanka Verma, wife of the applicant has been granted bail on 17.02.2025 by the court below. Hence, bail has been prayed for. 5. Learned AGA has vehemently opposed the prayer for bail but could not dispute the aforesaid facts. 6. Considering all above facts and circumstances, the nature of accusations, severity of the punishment in the case of conviction and nature of supporting evidence, reasonable apprehension of tampering with the witness and prima facie case, but without commenting on merit of case, a case for bail is made out. 7. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 8. Let the accused-applicant, Sonu Verma @ Chandra Prakash Verma, involved in above mentioned case crime number be released on bail, on his executing a personal bond and two reliable sureties each, in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned, subject to the following conditions: 1. The applicant will not tamper with the evidence. 2. The applicant will not indulge in any criminal activity. 3. The applicant will not pressurize/intimidate the prosecution witnesses and co-operate in the trial. 9. The applicant will appear regularly on each and every date fixed by the trial court, unless his personal appearance is exempted through counsel by the court concerned. 10. In the event of breach of any of the aforesaid conditions, the court below will be at liberty to proceed to cancel his bail. Order Date :- 1.5.2025 v.k.updh. Digitally signed by :- VINOD KUMAR UPADHYAY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad