YOGESH SANGWAN @SEETU Vs. STATE OF U.P.

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This bail application has been filed to release the applicant on bail in case crime no. 469 of 2012 under Section 2/3 of the U.P. Gangsters and Anti-Social Activities (Prevention) Act, P.S. Sihani Gate, District Ghaziabad.

(2.) The FIR dated 14.5.2012 was lodged by the Station Officer of P.S. Sihani Gate, District Ghaziabad against the applicant and others alleging offences under the provisions of UP Gangsters Act. It states that on seeing the records of the police station and the recommended gang chart it came to light that within the jurisdiction of the police station there is an organized gang of Vikas @ Vikki r/o Rohtak (Haryana), who is the gang leader, who, along with other accused persons, namely, Mukesh @ Sonu @ Sunil r/o Kasala and Yogesh Sangwan @ Seetu (the applicant) r/o Sarai Aurangabad, P.S. Bahadurgarh, District Jhajjar (Haryana), for purposes of their own and their families livelihood, collect money by committing murder, dacoity and heinous offences. Their gang has terrorized people who are afraid to appear as witnesses against them. The gang members are habitual offenders of offences under Chapter 16, 17 and 22 of the IPC. That, details of the offences committed by their gang are as follows:

(3.) In the first supplementary affidavit filed on behalf of the applicant, the deponent who is the nephew of the applicant stated that at the time of bail notice the deponent was not aware of the criminal history of the applicant and therefore nothing was mentioned in the criminal history of the applicant-accused. It is further stated that the deponent has come to know that the applicant-accused has seven cases in his criminal history which are as follows:-