Court No. - 66
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 4328 of 2019 Applicant :- Shashi Bhushan Pandey @ Pintu Pandey Opposite Party :- State Of U.P.
Counsel for Applicant :- Digvijay Tiwari 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 Shashi Bhushan Pandey @ Pintu Pandey seeking bail in Case Crime No. 257 of 2018, under Sections 109, 114, 116, 117, 147, 148, 149, 307, 332, 333, 336, 337, 338, 341, 342, 453, 436, 452, 504 IPC and section 7 Criminal Law Amendment Act and section 4/5 Prevention of Damages to Property Act. 1984, P.S.Haldharpur, District Mau.
Learned counsel for the applicant has submitted that F.I.R. has been lodged against 12 nominated and 400-500 unknown persons. Learned counsel for the applicant has next submitted that applicant is not named in the F.I.R. nor has been arrested from the spot and no recovery whatsoever has been made from his possession. Learned counsel for the applicant has next submitted that his name surfaced subsequently during course of investigation, however, no specific role has been assigned to him.
It is lastly submitted that the applicant has no other previous criminal history to his credit and the applicant is in jail since 15.12.2018 and in case the applicant is released on bail he will not misuse the liberty of bail and will cooperate in trial..
Learned AGA has vehemently opposed the prayer for bail but could not dispute the aforesaid facts as argued by learned counsel for the applicant.
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 Shashi Bhushan Pandey @ Pintu Pandey 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.
Order Date :- 30.1.2019 R