Izharul v. State of U.P.
Case brief
What is this about?
Court granted bail to the applicant in a criminal case involving alleged assault and affray charges, relying on principles of Art. 21 and a Supreme Court precedent, with strict conditions attached.
What did the court decide?
Applicant released on bail on furnishing a personal bond with two heavy sureties.
What the court decided
Court No. - 55
Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 34576 of 2018
Applicant :- Izharul Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Mukesh Kumar Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Dileep Kumar Srivastava
Hon'ble Vivek Kumar Singh,J.
Counter affidavit filed on behalf of the complainant is taken on record.
Heard Sri M.K.Pandey, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri D.K.Srivastava,learned counsel for the and Sri Sanjay Singh, learned A.G.A. appearing for the State.
According to prosecution case, F.I.R. was lodged by the complainant against 10 persons including the applicant and about 12 unknown persons alleging that the accused who were armed with their respective weapons of assault caused injuries to the injured and thereafter the miscreants managed to flee away from the place of occurrence.
Learned counsel for the applicant in support of his prayer for bail submits that the applicant is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case due to ulterior motive and he has committed no offence.It is next contended that the applicant has been assigned the role of exhortation and no specific role has been attributed to the applicant. No weapon of assault has been recovered from the possession of the applicant.There is inordinate delay in lodging the FIR for which no plausible explanation has been given by the prosecution. General role of causing injuries to the injured has been assigned to all the accused. It is also submitted that co-accused Amir and Irfanullah have already been released on bail by the court below as stated in paragraph 14 of the affidavit filed in support of the bail application and other co-accused namely,Jafaruddin, Rizwan Ahmad, Faiyaz Ahmad and Iqbal have also been released on bail by this court, copies of the bail orders have been annexed as annexure-9 to the bail application, hence the applicant is also entitled to be released on bail on the ground of parity.Several other submissions in order to demonstrate the falsity of the allegations made against the applicants have also been placed forth before the court.The circumstances which, according to the counsel, led to the false implication of the accused has also been touched upon at length. It has been assured on behalf of the applicant that he is ready to cooperate with the process of law and shall faithfully make himself
Issues for consideration
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the applicant is entitled to bail pending investigation/trial given the nature of the charges, delay in FIR, and release of co-accused.
Parties & counsel
- applicant
Izharul
- respondent
State Of U.P.
Coram
Vivek Kumar Singh
Case details
As recorded by the court registry
- Court
- Allahabad HC
- Decided on
- · September
- Registered
- Case no.
- BAIL/34576/2018
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