Court No. - 62
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 45037 of 2018 Applicant :- Junaid Opposite Party :- State Of U.P.
Counsel for Applicant :- Nazrul Islam Jafri Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Singh,J.
Heard Sri Nazrul Islam Jafri, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Abhinav Prasad, learned AGA for the State and perused the material brought on record.
The submission of learned counsel for the applicant is that applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case due to ulterior motive. It is further submitted that the applicant is a minor. At the time of arrest, as per Aadhar Card his date of birth is 10.11.2009, but after the ossification test his age was found 17 years and the Juvenile Justice Board declared the applicant a juvenile vide order dated 13.07.2018. Several other submissions in order to demonstrate the falsity of the allegations made against the applicant have also been placed forth before the Court. Further submission is that applicant who is in jail since 13.04.2018 has no other criminal history and there is also no possibility of his either fleeing away from the judicial process or tampering with the witnesses. Applicant also undertakes that he will not misuse the liberty, if granted.
Learned A.G.A. has vehemently opposed the prayer.
Having heard the submissions of learned counsel of both sides, larger mandate of the Article 21 of the Constitution of India and the dictum of Apex Court in the case of Dataram Singh v. State of U.P. and another, reported in (2018) 3 SCC 22 and without expressing any view on the merit of the case, I find it to be a case of bail.
Let applicant Junaid be released on bail in Case Crime No.369 of 2018, under Section 377 I.P.C. & Section 3/4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act 2012, Police Station Lisari Gate, District Meerut on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties, each to the satisfaction of the court concerned subject to the following conditions:-
(i) The applicant will co-operate with the trial and remain present personally on each and every date fixed after release. (ii) The applicant will not tamper with the prosecution evidence and will not delay the disposal of trial in any manner whatsoever. (iii) The applicant will not indulge in any unlawful activities. (iv) The applicant will not misuse the liberty of bail in any manner whatsoever.
The identity, status and residential proof of sureties will be verified by court concerned and in case of breach of any of the conditions mentioned above, court concerned will be at liberty to cancel the bail and send the applicant to prison.
The trial Court is directed to expedite the trial of the present case and conclude the same as expeditiously as possible from the date of receipt of certified copy of this order, keeping in view 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 :- 27.11.2018 Shahroz