JUDGMENT :

Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud, J

1. Permission to file the Special Leave Petitions granted.

2. Leave granted.

3. A batch of five Special Leave Petitions (SLP) under Article 136 of the Constitution has arisen from the orders passed by the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad granting bail to the five respondent-accused, namely:

(i) Kiranpal;

(ii) Sundar;

(iii) Rakesh;

(iv) Satish; and

(v) Dharmendra.

4. The circumstances which have led to the registration of the first information report¹[“FIR”] being Case Crime No 414 of 2019 against the accused under Sections 147, 148, 149, 302, 307, 323, 342 and 508 of the Indian Penal Code 1860 at Police Station Rabupura, District Gautam Budh Nagar may be adverted to briefly. The appellant who is the original complainant had two sons, Gajendra aged 34 years and Akash aged 22 years, who were killed in the course of an incident which took place on 29 November 2019. Two other persons, Sunil and Jeetu, out of the four others present along with the deceased, are alleged to have been seriously injured in the course of the incident. The FIR was l