Satish Kumar Sharma @ Raju v. State of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. of Technical Education,Lucknow

Court No. - 16 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 15016 of 2023 Applicant :- Satish Kumar Sharma @ Raju Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Technical Education,Lucknow Counsel for Applicant :- Upendra Prakash Pathak Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J.

¶1Heard Sri Upendra Prakash Pathak, learned counsel for the applicant, Smt. Arti Gupta 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. 988 of 2022, under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 406, 506 IPC, Police Station Kotwali Nagar, District Barabanki.

¶3The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 17.09.2022 against 13 persons, including the applicant, alleging that the informant is a director of a company, who had purchased some land through 39 sale deeds and thereafter plots were carved out in the land and were sold to 13 persons. However, later on it transpired that the sale deeds had been executed by imposters on the basis of fake documents.

¶4Three co-accused persons Dharmendra Singh @ Sonu, Mukesh Yadav and Kuldeep have already been granted bail in the present ase whereas it came to light during investigation that the money has been transferred to the bank account of co-accused Dharmendra Singh.

¶5In the affidavit filed in support of bail application, the applicant's involvement in 9 other cases has been disclosed in para 11 of the affidavit, in 4 of which the applicant has already been granted bail.

¶6The learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer for bail but he could not dispute the aforesaid aspects of the matter.

¶7Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case 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 case.

¶8Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed.

¶9Let the applicant-Satish Kumar Sharma @ Raju 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. Order Date :- 19.12.2023 Pradeep/- High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench