HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 33510 of 2026 Court No. - 68 (Sl. No. 36 out of 131) HON'BLE KRISHAN PAHAL, J. 1. List has been revised. 2. Learned counsel for the applicant prays for and is permitted to make necessary corrections in the memo as well as in the prayer clause of the bail application. 3. Heard Sri Ratan Kumar Mishra, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri A.K. Mishra, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material placed on record. 4. Applicant seeks bail in Case Crime No. 79 of 2026, under Sections 8/29 N.D.P.S. Act, Police Station Padari, District Mirzapur, during the pendency of trial. 5. The criminal history assigned to the applicant has been explained. 6. This Court is of the view that if a case for bail is otherwise made out, an accused cannot be kept incarcerated solely on account of his criminal antecedents. In the instant case, the criminal history assigned to the applicant has been properly explained. 7. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, submissions made by learned counsel for the parties, the evidence on record, taking into consideration the fact that there is no recovery of any contraband from the Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ratan Kumar Mishra, Shiv Prakash Dubey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Chandramani @ Dablu Pandey .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) possession of applicant and that his name has come up in the confessional statement of the arrested five co-accused persons, who have stated that they were going to hand over the said contraband to the applicant; that the said statement of co-accused persons has no evidentiary value being hit by the judgement passed in the case of Tofan Singh versus State of Tamil Nadu, 2021(4) SCC 1 and without expressing any opinion on the merits of the case, prima facie, the Court is of the view that the applicant has made out a case for bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 8. Let the applicant- Chandramani @ Dablu Pandey, 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 verification of sureties, with the condition that he shall not tamper with evidence or intimidate witnesses and shall appear before the trial court as required. 9. Breach of any of the above condition shall entail cancellation of bail. The observation herein shall not affect the trial on merits. September 21, 2026 Shalini BAIL No. 33510 of 2026 2 (Krishan Pahal,J.) Digitally signed by :- SHALINI JAISWAL High Court of Judicature at Allahabad