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2009 Supreme(SC) 153

ARIJIT PASAYAT, MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA
Ashok Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of U. P. – Respondent


Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant :Sonal Jain, Sachin Nagar, Umesh Chaudhary and Pravir Kumar Jain, Advocates.
For the Respondents:Sushil Kumar, Sr. Adv., L.R. Khatana, S. Rajappa, T.N. Singh, Rajeev Dubey and Kamlendra Mishra, Advocates.

JUDGMENT

Dr. Arijit Pasayat, J. —

1. Leave granted.

2. Challenge in this appeal is to the order passed by a learned Single Judge of the Allahabad High Court granting the prayer for bail made by respondent No.2-Kamal Singh. The present appeal has been filed by the complainant.

3. Background facts in a nutshell are as follows:

Respondent No.2 faced trial in Crime No.96 of 2006 for alleged commission of offence punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149, 323, 307, 302, 504 read with Sections 34 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (in short the ‘IPC’). Earlier the bail application filed was rejected by the High Court on 16.11.2006. In support of the second bail application it was submitted that pellets were found on the body of the deceased by the doctor and such pellets and the licensed rifle were sent to the ballistic expert. From the report received it is revealed that such pellets could not have been used by the licensed rifle of the accused. The ballistic report completely falsified the prosecution case. The High Court accepted the prayer for bail observing as follows:

“It is admitted case on behalf of prosecution that the applicant committed murder of deceased by causing injuri














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