Iqbal v. State of U.P.
Case brief
What is this about?
This court granted bail to the applicant in a murder case FIR. The court did not express an opinion on the merits of the case but directed the release of the applicant under bond with conditions.
What did the court decide?
Released on bail with personal bond and two sureties subject to conditions to not tamper with evidence or intimidate witnesses.
What the court decided
Court No. - 66 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 3594 of 2020
Applicant :- Iqbal Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Syed Ali Imam Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Hasan Abbas
Hon'ble Rajul Bhargava,J.
Supplementary affidavit filed today is taken on record.
Heard Sri S.A. Imam, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Hasan Abbas, counsel for the informant, learned A.G.A. and perused the record.
The present bail application has been filed by the applicant in Case Crime No. 433 of 2019, u/s 302, 201 IPC, P.S. Surajpur, District Gautam Budh Nagar with the prayer for enlarging him on bail.
It is submitted by learned counsel for the applicant that the applicant is wholly innocent and has been falsely implicated on account of suspicion and enmity. It has been argued that father of the first informant had left the house on 8.5.2019 informing the first informant that he is going to village Makhanpur along with Ikram and Iqbal to take back loan amount advanced to them; the said missing report was lodged on 10.5.2019 and it was taken down in G.D. of police station. It is further argued that another F.I.R. was lodged after recovery of dead body on 14.5.2019 wherein version was introduced that the applicant and co-accused Afzaal had taken his father on the pretext of repaying amount advanced by them. In the F.I.R. only circumstances against the applicant is of taking away the deceased along with co-accused Afzaal after six days of his disappearance and this fact is conspicuously absent in the missing report lodged on 10.5.2019. It is stated that co-accused Afzaal has been granted bail in Bail Application no. 46230 of 2019 vide order dated 13.11.2019.
Issues for consideration
1 issue framed by the court
Whether the applicant is entitled to be released on bail in a murder case.
Parties & counsel
- applicant
Iqbal
- respondent
State of U.P.
Coram
Rajul Bhargava
Case details
As recorded by the court registry
- Court
- Allahabad HC
- Decided on
- · January
- Registered
- Case no.
- BAIL/3594/2020
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