HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 30635 of 2025 Court No. - 67 HON'BLE KRISHAN PAHAL, J. 1. List has been revised. 2. Heard Sri Shivam Agarwal, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Anit Kumar Shukla, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 3. Applicant seeks bail in Case Crime No. 0088 of 2024, under Sections 61(2), 316(5) of BNS and Section 66/66C of I.T. Act, Police Station Cyber Crime, District Gautam Budh Nagar, during the pendency of trial. 4. Learned counsel for the applicant has argued that the applicant is absolutely innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case. The FIR is delayed by 60 days and there is no explanation of the said delay caused. 5. Learned counsel has next stated that it is true that the applicant is an employee in Paytm Payments Bank Limited but he has nothing to do with the said offence. The only allegation against the applicant is of having unfreezed certain accounts of the customers, who had siphoned the amount to the tune of Rs.29,97,059/- to their accounts. It is next stated that the applicant has not misused his clout and he has nothing to do with freezing or unfreezing of accounts. The applicant is employed just to take care of certain instruments and documents with the bank. 6. There is no criminal history of the applicant. The applicant is languishing in jail since 15.07.2025 and he is ready to cooperate with trial. In case, the applicant is released on bail, he will not misuse the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Shivam Agarwal, Tanu Shree Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Tarique Anwar .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) liberty of bail. 7. Learned A.G.A. has vehemently opposed the bail application. 8. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, submissions made by learned counsel for the parties, the evidence on record and taking into consideration the delay in institution of the FIR coupled by the fact that not a single penny having been transferred to the account of the applicant, the Court is of the view that the applicant has made out a case for bail. The bail application is allowed. 9. Let the applicant - Tarique Anwar, who is involved in aforementioned case crime be released on bail on his 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 applicant shall not tamper with the evidence during trial. ii) The applicant shall not pressurise/intimidate with the prosecution witnesses. iii) The applicant shall appear before the trial court on the date fixed. 10. In case of breach of any of the above conditions, it shall be a ground for cancellation of bail. 11. It is made clear that observations made in granting bail to the applicant shall not in any way affect the learned trial Judge in forming his independent opinion based on the testimony of the witnesses. September 16, 2025 Sumit S BAIL No. 30635 of 2025 2 (Krishan Pahal,J.) Digitally signed by :- SUMIT SRIVASTAVA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad