A single-judge bench of Allahabad High Court while hearing a Criminal Misc Bail Application filed by Kanpur-based perfume trader Peeyush Kumar Jain granted him bail.
Allahabad High Court division bench while hearing a petition filed by Keshav Prasad directed to take a decision in six weeks on the release of 81-year-old Keshav Prasad of Sitapur, who has been in jail for 46 years in a 1974 murder case in Sitapur.
The Division Bench of Justice Surya Prakash Kesarwani and Justice Saurabh Srivastava passed this order while hearing a petition filed by Rani Sonkar and 10 others.
The bail application has been filed with a prayer to release the applicant on bail in the Case registered under Sections 153-A, 295-A, 505(2), 509, 420 IPC and Section 66 of IT Act, 2000, Police Station Charva, District Kaushambi during pendency of the trial.