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

Court No. - 16 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9975 of 2023 Applicant :- Atul 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, learned counsel for the applicant, Smt. Arti Gupta Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the records.

¶2The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.288 of 2022, under Sections 419, 420, 408 I.P.C., registered at Police Station Mahmoodabad, District Sitapur.

¶3The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 07.07.2022 against eight persons, including the applicant, alleging that the informant and his family members had made investments in STS/Sankalp Group under allurement of lucrative return but upon maturity the money was not refunded to the investors.

¶4In the affidavit filed in support of bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case because his father Om Prakash Verma is the Chairman and his mother Smt. Mithlesh Verma is one of the Director of the company and also on the basis of wrong averments made in the FIR. The informant had not made any investment in STS/Sankalp Group rather he had made investment in LLC Multistate Agro Co-operative Society Ltd., under various schemes under which they had to be given plots of land upon completion of investments for various periods. The investors did not deposit the complete amount by paying all the installments rather they filed the FIR. Applicant's criminal history of 54 cases have been disclosed in para 2 of the supplementary affidavit, in 31 of which he has been granted bail.

¶5The learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer for 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 been implicated in the present case because his father Om Prakash Verma is the Chairman and his mother Smt. Mithlesh Verma is one of the Director of the Company and the co-accused persons Om Prakash Verma, Sharad Kumar Verma and Abhishek Upadhyay have already been granted bail by this Court whereas the applicant is languishing in jail since 22.08.2022 and without making any observation, which may affect the merits of the case, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for enlargement of the applicant on bail in the aforesaid crime.

¶7Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed.

¶8Let the applicant-Atul 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 :- 13.12.2023 Ram. High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench