Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC:28012 Court No. - 84 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 43256 of 2024 Applicant :- Akash Singh Sengar @ Chhotu @ Neta Opposite Party :- State of U.P. Counsel for Applicant :- Vijay Singh Sengar Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A.,Priyanka Devi Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Sri Vijay Singh Sengar, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Amrit Raj Chaurasia, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the records. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No. 212 of 2024, under Sections 77, 308(5), 351(2) B.N.S. and 67 I.T. Act, Police Station Kuthaund, District Jalaun. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 01.09.2024 against the applicant and one Sachin Singh Sengar stating that the accused persons took some objectionable photographs of the informant's sister and they were blackmailing her on their strength. When the informant's sister declined to pay money to them, the accused persons virally spread the photographs and videos of the informant's sister through WhatsApp. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of bail application it has been stated that the applicant is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. 5. The State has filed a counter affidavit but besides the criminal history of the applicant, no other material has been annexed therewith. 6. The applicant has filed a rejoinder affidavit and in para 15 whereof the applicant's involvement in two other cases has been disclosed, in both of which he has already been granted bail. A supplementary affidavit has been filed on behalf of the applicant annexing therewith a statement recorded by the Investigating Officer. The objectionable photographs have also been annexed with the supplementary affidavit and the person seen in those photographs with the victim, is not the applicant. The learned counsel for the applicant submits that it is the co-accused Sachin. Sachin has already been granted bail by means of an order dated 21.01.2025 passed by the trial court. 7. The learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer for bail but he could not dispute the aforesaid aspects of the matter. 8. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that the person seen with the victim in the objectionable photographs has already been granted bail and that there is nothing on record to prima facie establish that the applicant had forwarded the offending photographs to any person, I am of the view that the applicant is also entitled to be released on bail. 9. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 10. Let the applicant-Akash Singh Sengar @ Chhotu @ Neta be released on bail in the aforesaid case on furnishing a personal bond and two sureties each in the like amount to the satisfaction of magistrate/court concerned, subject to following conditions:- (i) the applicant shall not tamper with the prosecution evidence; (ii) the applicant shall not pressurize the prosecution witnesses; (iii) the applicant shall appear on each and every date fixed by the trial court, unless his appearance is exempted by the learned trial court. Order Date :- 27.2.2025 Pradeep/- Digitally signed by :- PRADEEP SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad