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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. - 9643 of 2026 Court No. - 71 HON'BLE RAJIV LOCHAN SHUKLA, J.
1. Heard Learned counsel for the applicant; and learned A.G.A. for the State.
2. The present anticipatory bail application has been filed on behalf of the applicant in Case Crime No.462 of 2023, under Sections 420, 406, 447, 504 and 506 of the I.P.C., Police Station – Kotwali, District Ballia, with a prayer to enlarge him on anticipatory bail, as the applicant apprehends his arrest in the aforesaid case.
3. The Learned A.G.A. has pointed out that the offences in question, in the event of a conviction, do not entail punishment of more than seven years and the interest of the applicant is protected by the guidelines given by the Supreme Court in Satender Kumar Antil vs. Central Bureau of Investigation & Another, (2021) 10 SCC 773. The Learned A.G.A. has further stated that the applicant had also moved an application under Section 482 No. 35880 of 2024 for quashing the charge sheet and the cognizance / summoning order and this Court, while granting two weeks interim protection to the applicant, had passed an order directing the concerned Court to consider and dispose of the bail application of the applicant in the light of the directions as provided in Satender Kumar Antil (supra).
4. I have gone through the order passed by this Court on 23.10.2024 and in the light of the order so passed, no further order is required to be made in this application. The applicant may appear and apply for bail. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Raghawendra Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Krishan Kumar .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s)
5. The application is accordingly dismissed. September 30, 2026 Kushal NABAIL No. 9643 of 2026 2 (Rajiv Lochan Shukla,J.) Digitally signed by :- KUSHAL AGRAWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad