Atul Kumar Verma v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko

Court No. - 16 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12495 of 2023 Applicant :- Atul Kumar Verma Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. Counsel for Applicant :- Ajeet Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J.

¶1Heard Sri Ajeet Kumar, the learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Anant Pratap Singh, the learned AGA for the State and perused the records.

¶2The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 716 of 2022 under Sections 420 and 409 I.P.C, Police Station Kotwali Nagar, District Barabanki.

¶3The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an FIR lodged on 20.07.2022 against six named persons including the applicant, alleging that the informant had made some investments in Lifelong Multi State Cooperative Society and in Sankalp Total Solution Private Limited but upon maturity neither his amount was repaid nor the sale deed was executed. The applicant has been implicated in the present case because his father Om Prakash Verma is the Chairman and mother Mithlesh Verma is the Director in which the investment was made.

¶4The applicant's involvement in total 54 other cases has been disclosed in the paragraph-18 of the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, all of which are of similar nature, in 17 of which the applicant has already been granted bail.

¶5The learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer of the bail, but he could not dispute the aforesaid aspects of the matter.

¶6Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that the applicant has already been granted bail in 17 other cases of similar nature and that she is languishing in jail since 06.08.2022, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail in the present case.

¶7Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed.

¶8Let the applicant-Atul Kumar Verma be released on bail in the aforesaid case, on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of magistrate/court concerned, subject to following conditions:-

(i) the applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence;

(ii) the applicant shall not pressurize the prosecution witnesses;

(iii) the applicant shall appear on each and every date fixed by the trial court. (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Order Date :- 19.10.2023 Preeti. High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench