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Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:62335 Court No. - 86 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 25060 of 2024 Applicant :- Sudarshan Pal Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Gulafsha,Shubham Srivastava,Sunil Kumar Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Dr. Gautam Chowdhary,J.
1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material brought on record.
2. Learned counsel for the applicant has argued that the applicant is named along with one co-accused-Aditya Pal. Allegation is that applicant is the LIC Agent. By making forged documents the applicant embezzled Rs. 3,34,000/- and cheated the LIC Company.
Learned counsel further submits in the facts, maximum offence would not travel beyond Section 420 I.P.C., for which punishment is upto seven years. No offence under Section 120-B I.P.C. is made out in view of the allegations made against the applicant. The applicant is in jail for more than one year, therefore, he may be enlarged on bail. Several other submissions in order to demonstrate the falsity of the allegations made against the applicant have also been placed before the Court. The circumstances which, according to the counsel, led to the false implication of the accused have also been mentioned. It has also been assured on behalf of the applicant that he is ready to cooperate with the process of law and shall faithfully make himself available before the court whenever required and is also ready to accept all the conditions which the Court may deem fit to impose upon him. He next submits that the applicant is in jail since 22.03.2024, with no criminal history.
3. Learned A.GA. for the State has opposed the prayer for bail.
4. Considering the overall facts and circumstances, the nature of allegations, the gravity of offence and without expressing any opinion on merits, this Court finds it to be a fit case for bail. Accordingly, the bail application stands allowed.
5. Let the applicant-Sudarshan Pal, be enlarged on bail in Case
Crime No. 19 of 2022, under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of I.P.C., Police Station- Feelkhana, District- Kanpur Nagar, on executing a personal bond and furnishing two local sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions: i) The applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence. ii) The applicant shall not threaten or harass the prosecution witnesses. iii) The applicant shall appear on the date fixed by the trial court. iv) The applicant shall not commit an offence similar to the offence of which the applicant is accused, or suspected of the commission. v) The applicant 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 such person from disclosing
facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence.
6. In case of default of any of the conditions enumerated above, the court concerned shall be at liberty to cancel the bail of applicant in accordance with law.
Order Date :- 23.4.2025 Mustaqeem. Digitally signed by :- MOHD MUSTAQEEM KHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad