JUDGMENT

A.S. Bopanna, J.

The three appeals of the first set, all titled Laxman Prasad Pandey vs. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. bearing Criminal Appeal No. 1551/2021 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No.3285/2021); Criminal Appeal No. 1554-1555/2021 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) Nos.5605-5606/2021) and Criminal Appeal No. 1553/2021 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No. 5539/2021) arise against the orders dated 16.03.2021, 17.12.2020 and 19.03.2021 and 26.07.2021 passed by the learned Single Judge of the High Court of Judicature of Allahabad, Lucknow Bench, Lucknow in Bail Application No.1694 of 2021, Bail Application No.9559 of 2020, Bail Application No. 11 of 2021 and Bail Application No.3876 of 2021. The accused in the above said cases are Anjani Kumar Shukla, Rahul @ Monu Tiwari and Raj Kumar Maurya.

2. The second set of four appeals, titled Laxman Prasad Pandey vs. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr. bearing Criminal Appeal No.1556/2021 (arising out of SLP (Crl.) No.6061/ 2021); Vishnu Prasad Pandey vs. State of U.P. & Anr.; Criminal Appeal No. 1552/2021 (arising out of SLP (Crl.)No.3226/2021; Subhash Saini and Pramod Prasad Pandey vs. State of U.P. & Anr.; Criminal Appeal No. 1558/2021 (arising out of