1. The High Court of Judicature at Allahabad by the impugned judgment and
order dated 3rd October, 2023 has rejected the petitioner’s prayer for bail.
2. The petitioner was arrested on 26 th May, 2018 in connection with a First
Information Report1 registered under Section 302, Indian Penal Code, 18602.
3. The trial is in progress.
4. Although it is revealed from the charge-sheet that the prosecution
intended to examine 22 (twenty-two) witnesses to drive home the charges
against the petitioner, in paragraph 13 of the counter affidavit, there is a
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statement that the prosecution does not wish to examine all 22 (twenty-two)
witnesses, earlier proposed, and that the number of prosecution witnesses to be
examined is limited to 8 (eight) now; also that, recording of the statement of
P.W.8 is now in progress.