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2025 DAILYLAW 71904 (ALL)

MUKESH v. State of U.P. and 3 Others

BAIL/24021/2024 · 2025-10-06

Samit Gopal

Criminal Appealbody2025

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 24021 of 2024 Court No. - 66 HON'BLE SAMIT GOPAL, J. 1. Heard Ms. Archana Yadav, holding brief of Sri Tripurari Pal, learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material on record. 2. This bail application under Section 483 BNSS has been filed by the applicant Mukesh seeking enlargement on bail during trial in connection with Case Crime No.383 of 2021, under sections 363, 366 IPC, Police Station Ujhani, District Budaun. 3. This is the second bail application. The first bail application of the applicant was rejected on merits by this Court vide order dated 26.04.2022 passed in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No. 53254 of 2021 (Mukesh vs. State of U.P.). 4. The sole and the only submission raised before this Court by learned counsel for the applicant is that the applicant is in jail since 05.09.2021 and thus the trial will take a lot of time and as such appropriate directions be issued to the trial court to expedite the same. 5. Per contra, learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer for bail and argued by placing reliance on the judgement of the Apex Court in the case of High Court Bar Association, Allahabad Vs. State of U.P. and others : Criminal Appeal No.3589 of 2023 dated 29.2.2024 and submitted that the Apex Court in the said judgement and also in other judgements repeatedly states that directions for expediting the trial should not be issued normally and any such direction places the accused on a platform which should be Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Tripurari Pal Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Mukesh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) avoided. It is submitted that as such no such direction be passed. 6. The sole submission of the applicant is not on merits but only for passing directions to expedite the trial. 7. Keeping in view the directions of the Apex Court in various judgements regarding such directions, the present bail application stands disposed of with direction to the applicant that he may file an application for expeditious disposal of the trial of the case before the court concerned within two weeks from today, which may as per its load of work, diary and pendency of cases, pass appropriate orders on the same. 8. The bail application is disposed of. October 7, 2025 Monika BAIL No. 24021 of 2024 2 (Samit Gopal,J.) Digitally signed by :- MONIKA KESARWANI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- MONIKA KESARWANI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad Digitally signed by :- MONIKA KESARWANI High Court of Judicature at Allahabad