JUDGMENT :

1. Heard Sri. Anoop Trivedi Senior Advocate assisted by Sri Vikas Tiwari and Sri. Nadeem Murtaza Advocates, the learned counsel for the applicants, Sri Anurag Verma, the learned AGA-I appearing for the State, Dr L.P. Misra and Sri Prafulla Tiwari Advocates, the learned counsel for the informant.

2. The instant application has been filed seeking anticipatory bail in F.I.R. No. 898 of 2021, under Sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471 IPC, lodged on 15.11.2021 in Police Station Gomti Nagar, District Lucknow against six named persons, including the applicants, stating that the informant is a Director and share holder of Piscesia Power Transmission Pvt. Ltd. (which will hereinafter be referred to as ‘the company’), which was promoted by the informant. In collusion with the company’s chartered accountant – applicant No. 3 Tushar Nagar, the applicants No. 1, 2 and 4 – Vivek Yadav, Vandana Yadav and Manoj Kumar Singh, entered into a conspiracy and grabbed the company and the business being run by it, on the basis of forged documents. Vandana Yadav had invested merely Rs. 28 lakhs in the year 2014 but she grabbed money far exceeding the amount invested by her. Vandana Yadav inducted her