CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. 1164 of 2026 at Allahabad

HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD CRIMINAL MISC. ANTICIPATORY BAIL APPLICATION U/S 482 BNSS No. - 1164 of 2026 Pawan Kumar Gupta .....Applicant(s) Versus State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) Counsel for Applicant(s) : Lakshman Tripathi, Suryansh Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Court No. - 72 HON'BLE RAJIV LOCHAN SHUKLA, J. 1. This Court on 12.2.2026 passed the following order:- "1. Heard Shri Lakshman Tripathi, learned counsel for the applicant, Shri O.P. Singh, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record. 2. The present application has been moved seeking anticipatory bail in Case Crime no.176 of 2021, under Sections 420, 406, 408 of I.P.C., Police Station Adampur, District Varanasi, with the prayer that in the event of arrest, applicant may be released on bail. 3. It is contended by learned counsel for the applicant that the applicant is an employee of a private gas agency and about one and a half years before lodging of the first information report, he had filed an application before the Senior Superintendent of Police, Varanasi highlighting the irregularities being committed in the said gas agency and the applicant is ready and willing to cooperate in the