Court No. - 66
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8675 of 2019 Applicant :- Amit Kumar Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Sanjay Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Rajiv Gupta,J.
Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State and perused the record.
This bail application has been filed by the applicant Amit Kumar seeking bail in Case Crime No. 18 of 2018, under Section 364 IPC, Police Station Hathgaon, District Fatehpur.
Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that the applicant is wholly innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case due to ulterior motive.
Learned counsel for the applicant has next submitted that similarly placed co-accused Savita Devi, who is the wife of the deceased, has already been granted bail by this Court in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No. 21046 of 2018 vide order dated 19.06.2018.
Learned counsel for the applicant has next submitted that the police report has already been submitted in the present case and the chances of trial being concluded in near future is very bleak due to heavy dockets.
Learned counsel for the applicant has next submitted that the applicant has no criminal history to his credit and he is in jail since 04.02.2018 and in case, he is released on bail, he will not misuse the liberty of bail and will cooperate in the trial by all means. Lastly, it is submitted that there is no chance of applicant fleeing away from judicial process or tampering with the witnesses.
Per contra, learned AGA for the State has opposed the prayer for bail but could not dispute the aforesaid facts and the fact that the applicant has no criminal history to his credit and he is in jail since 04.02.2018.
Keeping in view the nature of the offence, evidence, complicity of the accused, severity of punishment, submissions of the learned counsel for the parties and without expressing any opinion on merits of the case, I am of the view that the applicant has made out a case for bail.
Let the applicant Amit Kumar be released on bail in the aforesaid case crime number on his furnishing a personal bond and two heavy sureties (one surety shall be family member of the applicant) of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned subject to the following conditions :-
(i) The applicant shall not indulge in any criminal activity.
(ii) The applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence.
(iii) The applicant shall not pressurize the prosecution witnesses.
(iv) The applicant shall regularly appear on the dates fixed by the trial court unless his personal attendance is exempted by the trial court.
In case of default of any of the conditions enumerated above, it will be open to the opposite parties to approach the Court for cancellation of bail.
The Trial Court is directed to expedite the trial of the present case and conclude the same as expeditiously as possible, preferably within a period of six months from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order, keeping in view of the law laid down by the Apex Court in the case of Alakh Alok Srivastava Vs. Union of India and another, reported in AIR 2018 (SC) 2004, if there is no legal impediment.
Order Date :- 27.2.2019 Nadim