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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 23466 of 2025 Court No. - 82 HON'BLE SAMEER JAIN, J.
1. Supplementary affidavit filed on behalf of the applicant is taken on record. 2. Heard Sri Farhan Khan, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Kunwar Tejendra Bahadur learned A.G.A. for the State-respondent and Sri Abhinav Singh, Advocate holding brief of Sri Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, learned counsel for the informant. 3. The instant bail application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.144 of 2019, under Sections 498-A, 304-B I.P.C. and Sections 3/4 D.P. Act, Police Station Chiraiyakot, District Mau during pendency of the trial. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that this is the second bail application filed on behalf of the applicant and his first bail application has been dismissed vide order dated 27th July, 2023 after considering the fact that applicant is husband of the deceased and his wife died in her matrimonial home due to strangulation and he is pressing instant second bail application on the ground that applicant is in jail in the present matter for last more than six years but trial of the case is at advanced stage and statements of accused under Section 313 Cr.P.C. have been recorded and therefore, instant second bail application may be disposed of with a direction to the trial court to conclude the trial expeditiously. 5. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant and learned A.G.A. is having no objection if after disposing the instant second bail application, a direction is given to the court concerned to expedite the proceedings of the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Farhan Khan Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Santosh Kumar Upadhyay, Vinod Kumar Upadhyay Rajesh Alias Akshat Raj Yadav .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s)
case. 6. I have heard both the parties and perused the record of the case. 7.
This is the second bail application filed on behalf of the applicant and his first bail application has been dismissed after considering the fact that he is husband of the deceased and his wife died in her matrimonial home due to strangulation but it reflects, applicant is detained in jail in the present matter for last more than six years but it further reflects that the trial of the case is at advanced stage and statements of the accused under Section 313 Cr.P.C. have been recorded, therefore, in view of this Court, it is not proper to release the applicant on bail at this stage. 8. Accordingly, instant second ball application filed on behalf of the applicant stands dismissed. 9. However, considering the long incarceration of the applicant and the fact that trial is at its last leg, trial court is directed to conclude the trial, as expeditiously as possible, without granting unnecessary adjournment to either of the parties in accordance with law preferably within a period of two months from the date of production of certified copy of this order. September 23, 2025 Zafar BAIL No. 23466 of 2025 2
(Sameer Jain,J.) Digitally signed by :- MOHAMMAD ZAFAR ANSARI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad