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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:85814 Court No. - 86 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. - 2906 of 2025 Applicant :- Ramgopal And Another Opposite Party :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Applicant :- Mohd. Afzal Ansari,Rajesh Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Dr. Gautam Chowdhary,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicants, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.
2. The present application has been moved by the applicants Ram Gopal and Smt. Munni seeking anticipatory bail in Case Crime No.182 of 2022, under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 of I.P.C., Police Station Jani, District Meerut with the prayer that in the event of arrest, applicant may be released on bail.
3. It has been argued by the learned counsel for the applicants that applicants are innocent and they have an apprehension that they may be arrested in the above-mentioned case, whereas there is no credible evidence against them. It has further been submitted that applicants has no criminal antecedents and that no coercive process has been issued against the applicants so far. It was also submitted that applicants undertakes to co-operate during investigation and trial and they would appear as and when required by the investigating agency or Court. It has been stated that in case, the applicants are granted anticipatory bail, they shall not misuse the liberty of bail and will co-operate with the investigation and would obey all conditions of bail.
4. Learned A.G.A. has opposed the application for anticipatory
bail.
5. It may be stated that in case of Siddharam Satlingappa Mhetre v. State of Maharashtra, (2011) 1 SCC 694, it has been held by Hon'ble Supreme Court that while deciding anticipatory bail, Court must consider nature and gravity of accusation, antecedent of accused, possibility of accused to flee from justice and that Court must evaluate entire available material against the accused carefully and that the exact role of the accused has also to be taken into consideration.
6. In the instant case, considering the settled principle of law regarding anticipatory bail, submissions of the learned counsel for the parties, nature of accusation, role of applicant and all attending
facts and circumstances of the case, without expressing any opinion on merit of the case, no case for anticipatory bail is made out.
7. The anticipatory bail application is rejected.
Order Date :- 21.5.2025 S.Ali Digitally signed by :- SHAUKAT ALI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad