HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 16373 of 2026 Court No. - 72 HON'BLE RAJIV LOCHAN SHUKLA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 2. The instant bail application has been filed with a prayer to release the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.41 of 2026, under Sections 109, 115(2), 3(5) of the B.N.S., Police Station- Hathgaon, District- Fatehpur, during the pendency of the trial. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant contends that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the present case. Learned counsel further contends that the role given to the applicant in the First Information Report (FIR) is not of assaulting the injured, which has been specifically assigned to the co-accused Krishna. The applicant is in jail since 12.03.2026, having no criminal antecedents. 4. The learned AGA has opposed the prayer for bail. However, he could not dispute the fact that the role assigned to the applicant is not of assault on the injured. 5. I have considered the submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties. 6. Taking into account the fact that the applicant has not been assigned the role of causing injury to the injured and the applicant has no criminal antecedents, a prima facie case for grant of bail to the applicant is made out. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Arun Kumar Bajpai Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Mahendra Gupta @ Pankaj Gupta .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) 7. The bail application is allowed. 8. Let the applicant - Mahendra Gupta @ Pankaj Gupta, involved in the aforementioned crime be released on bail, on his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of the Court concerned, subject to the following conditions: i. The applicant will not tamper with the evidence. ii. The applicant will not indulge in any criminal activity. iii. The applicant will not pressurize/intimidate the prosecution witnesses and co-operate in the trial. iv. The applicant will appear regularly on each and every date fixed by the trial Court, unless his personal appearance is exempted by the Court concerned. 9. In the event of breach of any of the aforesaid conditions, the trial Court will be at liberty to proceed to cancel his/her bail. 10. It is made clear that the applicant shall be released on the basis of computer generated copy of this order, downloaded from the official website of High Court Allahabad and verified by the concerned counsel with the undertaking that the certified copy will be filed within 15 days. 11. It is further directed that the trial court shall send the release order to the concerned jail through Bail Order Management System (BOMS) to ensure early release of the applicant. 12. The observations made hereinabove are exclusively for deciding the instant bail application and shall not be construed as an opinion on the merits of the case. May 14, 2026 Kushal BAIL No. 16373 of 2026 2 (Rajiv Lochan Shukla,J.) Digitally signed by :- KUSHAL AGRAWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad