JUDGMENT :

KRISHAN PAHAL, J.

1. List has been revised.

2. Heard Sri Rajesh Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the applicants, Sri V.M. Zaidi, learned Senior Counsel assisted by Sri Subhash Chandra Tiwari, learned counsel for the informant and Sri P.K. Giri, learned Additional Advocate General assisted by Sri V.K.S. Parmar, learned A.G.A. for the State as well as perused the material placed on record.

3. The applicants have approached this Court directly without taking recourse to the Sessions Court, Kanpur Nagar.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant has stated that there is an exceptional ground for the applicants as the brother-in-law of the informant Radhey Krishna Upadhyay is an practising advocate at Kanpur Nagar and is an influential person who alongwith his juniors pressurises the applicants and there is every apprehension of the applicants being assaulted by them.

5. The present anticipatory bail application has been filed on behalf of the applicant in Criminal Case No. 70490 of 2021 (State vs. Mohit Upadhyay) arising out of Case Crime No. 22 of 2021 registered under Sections 308, 341, 504 and 506 IPC at Police Station- Barra, District Kanpur Nagar with a prayer to enlarge him on an