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2025 DAILYLAW 50679 (ALL)

DULICHANDRA v. STATE OF U.P. AND 3 OTHERS

BAIL/14964/2025 · 2025-05-22

Ashutosh Srivastava

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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:88093 Court No. - 68 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 14964 of 2025 Applicant :- Dulichandra Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. And 3 Others Counsel for Applicant :- Dharmendra Kumar,Ram Surat Patel Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Ashutosh Srivastava,J. Heard Shri Ram Surat Patel, learned counsel for the applicant, Shri Rajesh Kumar Singh, learned AGA for the State-respondents and perused the record. This bail application under Section 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 has been moved on behalf of accused- applicant, Dulichandra , seeking enlargement on bail in Case Crime No. 22 of 2025, under Sections 74 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Section 9/10 POCSO Act, Police Station Lalpura,, District Hamirpur. Learned counsel for the applicant argued that the accused- applicant is innocent. He has been falsely implicated in this very case crime number and is languishing in jail since 18.2.2025. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that applicant has done nothing wrong with the victim. The family members of the applicant is living in the house in question where alleged incident stated to have taken place and were present at time of incident. Applicant has not sexually assaulted the applicant. Charge sheet in this case has already been filed on 10.3.2025. 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. Hence, bail has been prayed for. Learned AGA has vehemently opposed the prayer for bail. 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. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. Let the accused-applicant, Dulichandra , 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. 4. 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. 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 :- 23.5.2025 Ravi Prakash (Ashutosh Srivastava, J.) Digitally signed by :- RAVI PRAKASH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad