Court No. - 16
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 20602 of 2018 Applicant :- Karan Soni Opposite Party :- State Of U.P.
Counsel for Applicant :- Anshu Singh,Hemendra Pratap Singh Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Arvind Kumar Mishra-I,J.
Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned AGA for the State of U.P and perused the material available on record.
Contention raised on behalf of the applicant has been confined to the extent that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case. The police on the very day of the lodging of the first information report arrested the applicant from his house. However, a complaint was also made to the competent authority regarding the same. Co-accused Furkan has already been granted bail by the court below, whose bail order has been annexed as annexure no.12 to the affidavit filed in support of this bail application. The applicant is languishing in jail since 19.03.2018.
Learned AGA has opposed prayer for bail. However, learned AGA has not disputed the aforesaid facts.
Without expressing any opinion on merits of the case but considering the facts and circumstances of the case, nature of accusation and the severity of punishment in case of conviction and the nature of supporting evidence, reasonable apprehension of tampering with witness or apprehension of threat to the complainant and prima facie satisfaction of the Court in support of the charge, the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, bail application is allowed.
Let the applicant Karan Soni involved in Case Crime No.82 of 2018, under Sections 392, 412 I.P.C., Police Station Gangeeri, District Aligarh be released on bail on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned.
Order Date :- 30.5.2018 rkg