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

Court No. - 16 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12522 of 2023 Applicant :- Atul Kumar Verma Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Sectt. Lko Counsel for Applicant :- Ajeet Kumar Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J.

¶1Heard Sri Ajeet Kumar, learned counsel for the applicant, and the learned Addl. Government Advocate, and perused the record.

¶2By means of the instant application the applicant Naved Ahmad seeks bail in Case Crime No. 841 of 2022, under sections 420, 409, I.P.C., P.S. Kotwali, District Barabanki.

¶3The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of a first information report (F.I.R.) lodged on 19.08.2022 against 6 persons, including the applicant, stating that the co-accused Sangam Verma had introduced himself to the informant as Director of Lifelong Care Multi State Agro Co-operative Pvt. Ltd., which company provides plots of lands under the name and style STS Infra Built. The FIR states that the applicant was working as a Director in the aforesaid Company. The F.I.R. has been lodged when the informant did not get possession of the land from the Company.

¶4In the affidavit filed in support of the bail-application it has been stated that the applicant is innocent and he has falsely been implicated in the present case. The applicant's criminal history of 54 cases including the present case arising out of dealings of the aforesaid Company has been disclosed in para 16 of the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, in 5 of which the applicant has already been granted bill.

¶5Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that even as per the FIR averments, the applicant was merely an employee of the said Company and out of 12 cases in which he has been implicated, the applicant has already been granted bail in 5 cases, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail in the present case also.

¶6Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed.

¶7Let the applicant Atul Kumar Verma be released on bail in the aforesaid case, on his 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 prateek High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench