CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. 2493 of 2025 at Allahabad

Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:27020 Court No. - 66 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 2493 of 2025 Applicant :- Lalit Patel Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Ishwar Prasad Singh,Pradeep Kumar,Sr. Advocate Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Sameer Jain,J. 1. Heard Sri Anil Srivastava, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Pradeep Kumar, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Vijay Kumar, learned AGA-I for the State-respondent. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 178 of 2024, under Sections 103(1), 61(2)A BNS, Police Station Chopan, District Sonbhadra, during pendency of the trial in the court below. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant submitted that FIR of the present case was lodged against unknown person and during investigation when three co-accused were arrested then they disclosed the name of the applicant by stating that he hired them to commit the murder of the deceased. 4. He further submitted that apart from the statements of the co- accused and confessional statement of the applicant as per prosecution, location of the mobile phone of the applicant and other ac