IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA
CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2026 (arising out of SLP(Crl.) No. 20363/2025)
KAPIL KUMAR APPELLANT(S)
VERSUS
STATE OF UTTAR PRADESH & ANR.
RESPONDENT(S)
O R D E R
Leave granted.
The complainant in Case Crime/First
Information Report (FIR) No. 612/2024
dated 12.07.2024 registered with Police
Station – Nandgram, District – Ghaziabad,
Uttar Pradesh, for the offences punishable
under Sections 109(1), 103(1), 3(5) and
193(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,
2023 and Sections 3, 25 and 27 of the Arms
Act, 1959, is before this Court, aggrieved
by the grant of bail to one of the accused
therein, viz., Kuldeep, respondent No. 2
Crl.A. @ SLP(Crl.) No. 20363/2025 1
herein, by the High Court of Judicature at
Allahabad, vide order dated 17.10.2025
passed in Criminal Misc. Bail Application
No. 16265/2025.
While issuing notice on 09.12.2025,
this Court took note of the fact that
respondent No. 2, Kuldeep, had not been
released from prison pursuant to the
impugned order and directed that the same
should not be given effect to till the
next hearing.
Pleadings having been completed, we
have heard the learned counsel for the
appellant, the learned counsel for the
State of Uttar Pradesh and the learned
senior counsel for respondent No. 2,
Kuldeep.
The impugned order does not reflect
adequate c...