JUDGMENT :

1. Counter affidavit filed on behalf of State is taken on record.

2. Heard Shri Anand Prakash Pandey, the learned counsel for the applicant, Shri Alok Kumar Vyas, the learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.

3. The applicant, Suraj Verma, has moved the present bail application seeking bail in Case Crime No. 280 of 2022, under Section 306 I.P.C., Police Station Lalganj, District Pratapgarh.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant submits that applicant is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case due to enmity and property dispute situated in the same village.

5. Learned counsel for the applicant initially F.I.R. was lodged under Section 363 I.P.C. in unknown. There is no any whisper about the applicant in the F.I.R. and even though F.I.R. was lodged after two days of the alleged incident of missing of minor daughter of complainant, that too, without any plausible explanation of delay.

6. Learned counsel for the applicant further submits that statement of the complainant under Section 161 Cr.P.C. was recorded on 26.05.2022 after the dead body of the victim was recovered from a well wherein he developed his case and false story has been made tha