"53. There are large number of cases of this Court in which the question of parity in the matters of bail has been considered earlier and the weight of judicial authority is in favour of the principle of parity being followed. In the case of Hadi v. State, 1986 Allahabad Criminal Cases 390 Hon'ble Parmeshwari Dayal, J. bailed out the accused on the ground that co-accused had been bailed out earlier. In another case of Sanwal Das Gupta v. State of U.P., 1986 Allahabad Criminal Cases 79, D.N. Jha, J. observed that where bail was granted to a coaccused then even the Magistrate can admit co-accused to maintain parity. In the case of Ram Roop Vs. State of U.P. 1987 Criminal Rulings 30, this Court observed that a co-accused having similar role having been granted bail another coaccused should also be granted bail. In the case of Ali Hussain v. State of U.P., 1990 U.P. Criminal Rulings 93, Hon'ble S.K. Dhaon, J. placed reliance on the Supreme Court's case of Kallu (supra) and granted bail on the ground of parity. In a unreported decision of this Court in Criminal Misc. Bail Application No. 1360 of 1987 Rai Munna v. State of U.P. Hon'ble G.P. Mathur, J. granted bail on the ground of parity though the Hon'ble Judge clearly observed that he was still of the opinion that the applicant was not entitled to bail on merits, but, however, as his case was not distinguishable from the case of co-accused the bail was granted on the ground of parity. In his judgment in Sobha Ram's case (supra) Hon'ble V.N. Mehrotra, J. has considered some more unreported decisions of this Court in which bail has been granted on the ground of parity. I respectfully agree with the view of Hon'ble V.N. Mehrotra, J.
