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2025 DAILYLAW 36583 (ALL)

ARJUN SINGH v. STATE OF U.P.

BAIL/11024/2025 · 2025-05-26

Ashutosh Srivastava

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:93126 Court No. - 68 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11024 of 2025 Applicant :- Arjun Singh Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Manoj Kumar Tripathi,Vinod Kumar Tirpathi Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Ashutosh Srivastava,J. 1. Counter affidavit filed today, which is taken on record. 2. Heard Sri Manoj Kumar Tripathi, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Yagyavalk Pandey, learned AGA for the State- respondents and perused the record. 3. This bail application under Section 483 BNSS has been moved on behalf of accused-applicant, Arjun Singh, seeking enlargement on bail in Case Crime No. 01 of 2025, under Sections 3, 4, 5, 7 Immoral Traffic Prevention Act 1956, Police Station Anti Human Trafficking Unit, District Meerut. 4. 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 21.02.2025. 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. 5. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant is neither owner of the H.V. Hotel, nor he committed the alleged offence as alleged in the FIR. The applicant is only servant in the aforesaid hotel and he has not indulged in teh prostitution work. The co-accused namely Tarun and Ankit have already been granted bail by this Bench vide order dated 21.03.2025 passed in Crl. Misc. Bail Application No. 9560 of 20-25. There is no independent witness of the alleged incident and the alleged entire prosecution story against the applicant is false, fabricated and baseless and concocted. Hence, bail has been prayed for. 6. Learned AGA vehemently opposed the prayer for bail but could not dispute the aforesaid facts. 7. 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. 8. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 8. Let the accused-applicant, Arjun Singh, 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: i. The applicant will not tamper with the evidence. ii. The applicant will not indulge in any criminal activity. iii. The applicant will not pressurize/intimidate the prosecution witnesses and co-operate in the trial. iv. 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 :- 27.5.2025 v.k.updh. Digitally signed by :- VINOD KUMAR UPADHYAY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- VINOD KUMAR UPADHYAY High Court of Judicature at Allahabad