Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:145373 Court No. - 83 Case :- CRIMINAL APPEAL No. - 5455 of 2025 Appellant :- Salman Respondent :- State of U.P. and Another Counsel for Appellant :- Sarve Nazir,Zafar Abbas Counsel for Respondent :- Ansar Haider Rizvi,G.A. Hon'ble Shekhar Kumar Yadav,J. 1. Supplementary affidavit filed on behalf of the appellant today in the Court is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the appellant, learned counsel for the informant and learned AGA as well as perused the entire record. 3. The present criminal appeal under Section 14-A(2) Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act has been filed by the appellant- Salman to set aside the bail rejection order dated 22.4.2025 passed by Special Judge (S.C./S.T. (P.A.) Act, Moradabad in Bail Application No. 1221 of 2025, S.T. No. 521 of 2024 (State Versus Salman and others) related to Case Crime No. 162 of 2024, under Sections 366, 376 I.P.C. and Section 3(2)(V) S.C./S.T. Act, Police Station- Mundapandey, District- Moradabad with a further prayer to release the appellant on bail in the aforesaid case crime. 4. Learned counsel for the appellant submits that the appellant has been falsely implicated in the present case. The FIR has been registered with delay of three days. It has further submitted that the P.W.-1, the first informant, has not supported the prosecution story before the trial court and P.W.-2 victim has also not supported the prosecution story and turned hostile before the trial court. Medical report also does not corroborate with the prosecution story. It has further been submitted that there are 11 witnesses, out of them only two witnesses have been examined so far. The appellant is languishing in jail since 06.04.2024. Further submission is that the impugned order rejecting the bail application of the appellant suffers from infirmity and illegality warranting interference by this Court. 5. On the other hand, learned counsel for the informant and learned A.G.A. have opposed the prayer for bail. 6. I have considered the rival submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties and have gone through the entire record including the impugned order carefully. 7. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the nature of the offence, evidence, complicity of the accused, role assigned to the present appellant and the nature of injury, the Court is of the opinion that the appellant has made out a case for bail. The Court below erred in rejecting the bail application of the appellant. The impugned order suffers from infirmity and illegality and the same is liable to be set-aside and the appeal is liable to be allowed. 8. Accordingly, the appeal is allowed and the impugned order rejecting the bail application of the appellant is hereby set-aside. 9. Let the appellant- Salman, involved in aforesaid case crime number be released on bail on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned subject to following conditions. Further, before issuing the release order, the sureties be verified. (i) The appellant will not tamper with the evidence during the trial. (ii) The appellant will not pressurize/ intimidate the prosecution witness. (iii) The appellant will appear before the trial court on the date fixed, unless personal presence is exempted. (iv) The appellant shall not commit an offence similar to the offence of which he is accused, or suspected, of the commission of which he is suspected. (v) The appellant 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 him from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence. 10. In case of breach of any of the above conditions, the prosecution shall be at liberty to move bail cancellation application before this Court. Order Date :- 22.8.2025 Gss Digitally signed by :- GIRAJA SHANKER SHARMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad