JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Sri Purnendu Chakravarty Advocate, the learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Arvind Kumar Pandey, the learned AGA for the State and Sri Digvijay Nath Dubey, the learned counsel for the informant.

2. By means of the present application, the applicant is seeking anticipatory bail in case crime No. 363/2021, under Sections 323/504/506/406/420/467/468/471 I.PC., P.S. Vibhuti Khand, District Lucknow.

3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an FIR lodged by the informant Deepak Sharma on 23.07.2021 against four named persons, including the applicant, and an unknown person, alleging that in December, 2018, co-accused Anand Kumar Singh alias Baba Trikaldarshi met the informant at Mumbai and projected that he had a good understanding of mining of sand and had a sound grip on the market in Banda. The informant visited Lucknow thrice in December, 2018, January, 2019 and February, 2019 where the co-accused Anand Kumar Singh met him in a hospital and at the residence of co-accused Rajiv Porwal and the applicant and the co-accused Navneet Singh Bhadauria also used to sit in the meetings and they claimed themselves to be established businessmen of Morang (a min