Court No. - 28
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 40610 of 2018 Applicant :- Chhote Lala Opposite Party :- State Of U.P.
Counsel for Applicant :- Raja Ram Kushwaha Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Rajiv Gupta,J.
Heard learned counsel for applicant, learned AGA for the State and perused the record.
This bail application has been filed by the applicant seeking bail in Case Crime No. 149 of 2018, under Section 452, 354B, 323, 504, 506 IPC, Police Station Kurara, District Hamirpur.
Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the present case due to ulterior motive. The criminal history of the applicant has been explained in paragraph 10 of the affidavit.
Learned counsel for the applicant has further submitted that the co- accused Mehru Nishad has already been granted bail by this Court in Criminal Misc. Bail Application Nos. 32327 of 2018 vide order dated 26.10.2018.
He has next submitted that the applicant is in jail since 05.07.2018 and in case, the applicant is released on bail, he will not misuse the liberty of bail and will cooperate in the trial by all means Per contra, learned AGA has opposed the prayer for bail but could not dispute the fact that the co-accused has already been granted bail by this Court and the applicant is in jail since 14.08.2018.
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 Chhote Lala be released on bail in the aforesaid case crime number on his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties 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 :- 31.10.2018 Nadim