JUDGMENT :

Krishan Pahal, J.

1. List has been revised.

2. Heard Sri Akhilesh Kumar Mishra, learned counsel for the applicant and Sri Sunil Kumar, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the record.

3. Applicant seeks bail in Case Crime No. 254 of 2024, under Sections 108, 64(1), 115(2), 3(5) of BNS Police Station Shivali, District Kanpur Dehat, during the pendency of trial.

PROSECUTION STORY:

4. The applicant and other co-accused persons are stated to have taken certain indecent photographs and video of the victim and had started blackmailing her subsequently, and had even extorted lacs of rupees from her thereby had drawn the victim to commit suicide. The victim had committed suicide on 01.09.2024.

ARGUMENTS ON BEHALF OF APPLICANT :

5. The applicant has been falsely implicated in the present case and he has nothing to do with the said offence.

6. The cause of death was found to be to Asphyxia as a result of ante mortem hanging.

7. No overt act has been assigned to the applicant of having abeted the victim to commit suicide.

8. Although, it is true that the register was found of which, name of the applicant is present whereby it is mentioned that the applicant and other co-accused persons ha