Allahabad High Court
Vishal vs State Of U.P. on 21 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. - 11240 of 2022
Applicant :- Vishal
Opposite Party :- State of U.P.
Counsel for Applicant :- Sushil Kumar Shukla,Shivam Shukla
Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.
Hon'ble Krishan Pahal,J.
Heard Sri Sushil Kumar Shukla, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Vibhav Anand 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.719 of 2022, registered under Section 384 IPC and Section 67A of I.T. Act, at Police Station- Kankarkhera, District Meerut with a prayer to enlarge him on anticipatory bail.
As per prosecution story, the applicant is stated to have made an indecent photograph and video of the daughter of the informant and is stated to have sent it to her husband and the applicant and other family members are stated to have threatened the informant to make it viral on social media and are stated to have demanded a ransom of Rs.5 lacs from her to refrain from doing so.
Learned counsel for the applicant has stated that he has been falsely implicated in the present case. There is nothing on record to suggest that the applicant has committed the said offence. Neither the mobile number of the sender nor the mobile number of the receiver has been mentioned anywhere in the FIR and it has also not come up in the investigation. The said FIR has been lodged out of vengeance as the applicant and the informant belong to the same family. There are no criminal antecedents of the applicant. 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- Vishal 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 :- 21.12.2022
Ravi Kant
