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2025 DAILYLAW 45418 (ALL)

ASHU AGRAWAL v. STATE OF U.P.

BAIL/13176/2025 · 2025-05-13

Sameer Jain

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:79621 Court No. - 66 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 13176 of 2025 Applicant :- Ashu Agrawal Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Ravindra Kumar Yadav,Sandeep Kumar Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sameer Jain,J. 1. Heard Sri Sandeep Kumar Yadav, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Santosh Pandey, learned brief holder for the State-respondent. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 399 of 2024, under Sections 318(2), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 61(2), 317(5), 111, 336(1) BNS, Police Station Kotwali Nagar, District Muzaffarnagar, during pendency of the trial in the court below. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that applicant has been made accused in the present matter along with several others including co-accused Gulbahar, Pradeep and Musharraf Hussain @Musa and after considering entire facts of the case in detail, all the above three accused persons have been released on bail by this Court and their bail orders have been annexed along with the instant bail application. 4. He further submitted that applicant is not having any criminal history and he is in jail in the present matter since 27.02.2025. 5. Per contra, learned AGA however, opposed the prayer for bail but could not dispute the argument on facts advanced by learned counsel for the applicant. 6. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record of the case. 7. From the record, it reflects that in the present matter, applicant has been made accused along with co-accused Gulbahar, Pradeep and Musharraf Hussain @Musa and all the above three accused persons have been released on bail by this Court and on facts, case of applicant is at par with them. 8. Further, applicant is not having any criminal history and he is in jail in the present matter since 27.02.2025. 9. Therefore, considering the facts and circumstances of the case discussed above, in my view applicant is entitled to be released on bail. 10. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, the instant bail application is allowed. 11. Let the applicant- Ashu Agrawal be released on bail in the aforesaid case on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions:- (i) The applicant shall appear before the trial court on the dates fixed, unless his personal presence is exempted. (ii) The applicant shall not directly or indirectly, make 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 any police officer or tamper with the evidence. (iii) The applicant shall not indulge in any criminal and anti-social activity. 12. In case of breach of any of the above condition, the prosecution will be at liberty to move an application before this Court for cancellation of the bail of the applicant. 13. It is clarified that the observations made herein are limited to the facts brought in by the parties pertaining to the disposal of bail application and the said observations shall have no bearing on the merits of the case during trial. Order Date :- 14.5.2025 KK Patel Digitally signed by :- KRISHN KANT PATEL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- KRISHN KANT PATEL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad