petitioner has got no criminal antecedent. There is no allegation of tampering of witnesses alleged against the petitioner. The petitioner is in custody since 29-05-2018. Charge sheet has already been submitted. The petitioner has falsely been implicated in the present case. In paragraph-105 of the case diary, one Surendra Rai, a witness to the FIR, made his confessional statement before the police. Later on, the said witness also has been made accused in the present case. As per his confession before the police, he has admitted his guilt. The said Surendra Rai in his confession has not named the petitioner. The allegation of firing upon the deceased has been made against four persons including the petitioner. As per postmortem report, there is only one gun shot injury. One is wound of entry and other is wound of exit. It has been pointed out by Mr. Jitendra Singh, learned Senior counsel appearing for the petitioner that the bail application of the co-accused namely, Dileep Yadav, was dismissed by a coordinate bench of this court with a direction to the court concerned to conclude the trial, preferably, within a period of nine months.
