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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:123151 Court No. - 87 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 13601 of 2025 Applicant :- Ravi Kumar Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Rajesh Sharma,Ravi Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Ram Manohar Narayan Mishra,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. 2. The present bail application has been filed by the applicant in Case Crime No. 0128 of 2025, under Sections - 8/20/29/60 Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, Police Station - Akrabad, District - Aligarh, with the prayer to enlarge him on bail. 3. It is submitted by learned counsel for the applicant that applicant is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in this case. According to prosecution version 26.800 kg. 'ganja' was recovered from the car. Said car belongs to accused applicant Ravi Kumar. There were five occupants, including applicant, in the said car. There is no independent witness of the alleged recovery. The provisions of Section - 50 NDPS Act have not been complied with. Referring to facts of the matter, it was submitted that even as per prosecution version, said recovery was shown from five persons. Counsel for the applicant submits that the co-accused Mahendra Singh, Harvesh Yadav, Lalu Prasad, having identical role, have already been granted bail by this Court and as such, the applicant is also entitled for bail on the ground of parity. The only distinguishing feature of accused applicant is that he is stated to be owner of the vehicle from whom contraband was allegedly recovered. In fact accused applicant is not the registered owner of the said vehicle. The applicant has no criminal history. Lastly, it was submitted that the applicant is languishing in jail since 20.03.2025 and that in case applicant is granted bail, he shall not misuse the liberty of bail and would co-operate during trial. 4. Learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer for bail. 5. Considering submissions of learned counsel for the parties, nature of accusations, co-accused have already been enlarged on bail and all attending facts and circumstances of the case, without expressing any opinion on the merits, a
case for bail is made out. Accordingly the instant bail application is hereby allowed. 6.
Let the applicant - Ravi Kumar involved in the aforesaid case be released on bail on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each of the like amount to the satisfaction of court concerned subject to the following conditions : (i) The applicant shall not tamper with the evidence during trial. (ii) The applicant shall not pressurize/intimidate the prosecution witnesses. (iii) The applicant shall appear before the trial court on the date fixed, unless his personal appearance is exempted. (iv) The applicant shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade them from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence. 7. In case of breach of any of the above condition, the Court concerned shall be at liberty to cancel bail of applicant in accordance with law. Order Date :- 25.7.2025 Ranjeet Sahu Digitally signed by :- RANJEET SAHU High Court of Judicature at Allahabad