Allahabad High Court
Atendra vs State Of U.P. on 14 December, 2022
Bench: Krishan Pahal
HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD
?Court No. - 78
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 438 CR.P.C. No. - 12429 of 2022
Applicant :- Atendra
Opposite Party :- State of U.P.
Counsel for Applicant :- Virpratap Singh,Rajat Agarwal
Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Krishan Pahal,J.
Heard Sri Dinesh Kumar Gupta, Advocate holding brief of Sri Virpratap Singh, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Kulveer Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State as well as perused the record.
The present anticipatory bail application has been filed on behalf of the applicant in Case Crime No.625 of 2022, registered under Sections 147, 149, 323, 307, 504 and 506 IPC at Police Station- Rath, District Hamirpur with a prayer to enlarge him on anticipatory bail.
As per prosecution story, when the informant was sowing his fields on 20.10.2022 at about 7:00 pm, he had an altercation with the applicant and out of that animosity, the applicant and other co-accused persons are said to have intercepted the informant on 02.11.2022 in the fields and the applicant is stated to have fired at him, which did not hit him.
Learned counsel for the applicant has stated that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the present case. The applicant has been assigned the role of firing at the informant which did not hit him. The FIR is delayed by four days and there is no explanation of the said delay caused. The said FIR has been lodged after legal consultation. The co-accused person Smt. Hari has already been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide order dated 7.12.2022 passed in Criminal Misc. Anticipatory Bail Application U/s 438 Cr.P.C. No.12367 of 2022. Several other submissions have been made on behalf of the applicant to demonstrate the falsity of the allegations made against him. The circumstances which, as per counsel, led to the false implication of the applicant have also been touched upon at length. Learned counsel for the applicant undertakes that he has co-operated in the investigation and is ready to do so in trial also failing which the State can move appropriate application for cancellation of anticipatory bail.
Per contra, learned A.G.A. has vehemently opposed the anticipatory bail application but unable to dispute the submissions raised by the learned counsel for the applicant.
On due consideration to the arguments advanced by learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. and considering the nature of accusations and antecedents of the applicant, the applicant is liable to be enlarged on anticipatory bail in view of the judgment of Supreme Court in the case of "Sushila Aggarwal Vs. State (NCT of Delhi), (2020) 5 SCC 1". The future contingencies regarding the anticipatory bail being granted to applicant shall also be taken care of as per the aforesaid judgment of the Apex Court.
In view of the above, the anticipatory bail application of the applicant is allowed. Let the accused-applicant- Atendra be released forthwith in the aforesaid case crime (supra) on anticipatory bail till the conclusion of trial on furnishing a personal and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of the Station House Officer of the Police Station concerned/court concerned with the following conditions:-
1. that the applicant shall make himself available for interrogation by a police officer as and when required;
2. that the applicant shall not, directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence;
3. that the applicant shall not leave India without the previous permission of the court;
4. that in case charge-sheet is submitted the applicant shall not tamper with the evidence during the trial;
5. that the applicant shall not pressurize/ intimidate the prosecution witness;
6. that the applicant shall appear before the trial court on each date fixed unless personal presence is exempted;
7. that in case of breach of any of the above conditions the court below shall have the liberty to cancel the bail.
It is made clear that observations made hereinabove are exclusively for deciding the instant anticipatory bail application and shall not affect the trial.
Order Date :- 14.12.2022
Ravi Kant
