RAVINDRA Vs. STATE OF U P

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS first bail application has been moved on behalf of applicant Ravindra involved in Case Crime No. R.C. No. 1(S)/2007, S.T. No. 428 of 2007, under Sections 120B, 364, 384, 302, 201 I.P.C., Police Station-SCV/SCR-II, New Delhi.

(2.) PROSECUTION case in brief is that the F.I.R. was lodged by Satish Kumar, brother of deceased Dr. Kavita Rani on 29.10.06 at P.S. Syana District Bulandshahr in case Crime No. 157 of 2006, alleging therein that the deceased Dr. Kavita Rani, lecturer in Chaudhary Charan Singh University, Meerut had gone to her village Dhansurpur District Bulandshahr on 19.10.06 to attend Diwali festival. On 23.10.06 when she was returning back to Meerut she disappeared and her whereabouts could not be known, all the three cell phones No. 931961612140, 9997123627, 98377701434 were switched off. Its information was given at P. S. Syana on 29.10.06. Thereafter, the police of P. S. Syana made search of the room of the deceased in Indira Gandhi Mahila Chhatrawas, Meerut on 1.11.06 and some letters written by the deceased were taken in possession, in which the names of co-accused Ravindra Pradhan and his brother Harendra Pradhan were also mentioned alongwith the name and phone numbers of other persons. In these letters, threat was given to the deceased and her family members by the co-accused Ravindra Pradhan on the telephone and she was asked to marry with him otherwise she and her family members would be done to death. It was suspected that she was abducted and killed by the above mentioned persons. Thereafter, the matter was transferred to P.S. Civil Lines, on the point of territorial jurisdiction, where it was registered on 22.12.06. Thereafter, investigation was transferred by the Government to C.B.I. where it was registered as C.C. No. RC-11(S)/2007, in which charge-sheet has been submitted against the applicant. Now the matter is pending in the Court of learned Special Judge, C.B.I. (Anti Corruption) U.P. (East) Ghaziabad vide S.T. No. 428 of 2007.

(3.) HEARD learned counsel for the applicant, learned A.G.A. and Sri G. S. Hazela, learned counsel for the C.B.I.