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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:93410 Court No. - 68 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 14872 of 2025 Applicant :- Chandan Sharma Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Gyanedra Pratap Singh,Narendra Pratap Kushawaha Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Ashutosh Srivastava,J. Supplementary affidavit filed in the Court today is taken on record. Heard Shri Gyanedra Pratap Singh, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Anil 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, Chandan Sharma, seeking enlargement on bail in Case Crime No. 870 of 2023, under Sections 307 of I.P.C. and Section 4/25 of Arms Act, Police Station- Kotwali Padrauna, District- Kushinagar.
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 25.03.2025.
Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has been assigned the role of catching hold and the main accused, to whom role of causing injury has been assigned, has already been enlarged on bail by Coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 05.02.2024 passed in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No. 54388 of 2023. He next submits that the applicant's role is on better footing than that of the main accused. The applicant has criminal antecedent of three cases and the same are duly explained in para 2 of the supplementary affidavit 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, Chandan Sharma, 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 :- 30.5.2025 Anjali Digitally signed by :- ANJALI SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad