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Time of India
8 hours ago
- Time of India
Sahu murder case: Convict granted bail
Lucknow: The Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court has granted bail to the convict Babu Khan in the Shravan Sahu murder case. The court has granted bail to Babu Khan on the basis of parity of the bail granted to co-accused Ajay Patel on Apr 21, 2025, on the basis of his case being similar. A vacation bench of Justice Pankaj Bhatia and Justice Kshitij Shailendra passed the order, allowing the bail plea moved by the appellant Khan along with the appeal . The bench observed, "Considering the reasoning of the coordinate bench in granting bail to co- accused Ajay Patel and adopting the same as contained therein coupled with the fact that the appellant Khan has no substantial criminal antecedents and there is nothing on record to demonstrate that the appellant, if enlarged on bail at this stage, can have any adverse effect on appeal as also considering the fact that the appeal is of the year 2024 and there is no likelihood of the appeal being heard in near future. " In-fact, the court had granted bail to Patel saying that the prosecution could not produce any prima facie evidence that Ajay Patel had conspired to kill Shavan Sahu. In the Shravan murder case, the special CBI court had sentenced Babu Khan to life imprisonment and a fine of Rs 1.1 lakh in Aug 2024. The trial court had sentenced a total of eight accused in this case. Babu Khan had challenged this verdict in the HC.
Hindustan Times
2 days ago
- Hindustan Times
‘Key conspirator' in Shrawan Sahu murder case gets bail
LUCKNOW Babu Khan, one of the alleged key conspirators in oil trader Shravan Sahu's murder, was granted bail by the Lucknow bench of Allahabad high court on Tuesday, nearly nine months after he, along with seven other accused, was awarded a life sentence by a special court of CBI here. Sahu was shot dead in his shop outside his house in a crowded residential locality of Saadatganj on February 1, 2017. (Pic for representation) Sahu was shot dead in his shop outside his house in a crowded residential locality of Saadatganj on February 1, 2017. He was fighting the murder case of his 27-year-old son Ayush, who was shot dead by a local gangster, Aqeel Ansari, after a brawl outside a beer shop on Campbell Road under Thakurganj police station on October 16, 2013. 'The double bench of justice Pankaj Bhatia and justice Kshitij Shailendra allowed the bail for Babu Khan as there was not much circumstantial evidence against him. Besides, he also remained on bail while the trial was pending with the CBI court during the years. Moreover, one other co-accused, Ajay Patel, was also enlarged on bail on April 21, 2025,' said counsel of the appellant, advocate Zeeshan Alvi, on Wednesday. 'Considering the fact that the appellant has no substantial criminal antecedents and there is nothing on record to demonstrate that the appellant, if enlarged on bail at this stage, can have any adverse effect on appeal. Also, because the appeal is of the year 2024 and there is no likelihood of the appeal being heard in the near future, the appellant Babu Khan is enlarged on bail in the aforesaid sessions trial,' the court order stated. Zeeshan Alvi informed that Babu Khan was convicted and awarded life imprisonment under IPC sections 302 and 120-B for hatching a murder conspiracy. On August 22, 2024, the special CBI court awarded life sentences to eight accused in the Shravan Sahu murder case. Others convicted were Aqeel Ansari, Ajay Patel, Satyam Patel, Aman Singh, Vivek Varma, Faisal and Rohit Mishra. Ansari was a close associate of late gangster Mukhtar Ansari. Sahu was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants while he was sitting at his oil shop around 8.30pm. The incident exposed negligence by cops as Sahu was not provided any police security despite being the key witness in the murder of his son, Ayush. He had made several complaints to the police citing life threat. Threat perception to Sahu could be gauged from the fact that Ansari had once tried to eliminate him with help of contract killers while being inside jail. .
