Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:19889 Court No. - 15 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 2967 of 2025 Applicant :- Ravi Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And 3 Others Counsel for Applicant :- Mritunjay Kumar Trivedi,Brijesh Kumar Srivastava,Krishna Prakash Singh,Rahul Kumar Shukla Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Sri Rahul Kumar Shukla, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Anurag Verma, learned Additional Government Advocate-I 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. 34 of 2024, under Sections 363/366/376 I.P.C. and Section 3/4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, registered at Police Station Sidhauli, District Sitapur. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 16.02.2024 alleging that the informant's daughter aged about 15 years had gone away to get some medicines on 10.02.2024 but she did not come back. 4. In the statement of the victim recorded under Section 161 Cr.P.C. she stated that she is aged about 21 years, she developed relationship with the applicant and she had gone with him and has married him. She stated that she is staying with the applicant as his wife for the past two and half months and she is very happy. The victim declined to undergo medico legal examination. As per radiological examination report the age of the victim has been opined to be about 17 years. In the statement of the victim recorded under Section 164 Cr.P.C. she reiterated her earlier version. 5. In the affidavit filed in support of bail application it has been stated that the applicant is a young man aged 24 years, he is innocent, he has been falsely implicated in the present case and he has no criminal history. 6. The learned Additional Government Advocate-I appearing on behalf of the State has opposed the prayer for bail and he has submitted that as per the educational record the date of birth of the victim is 18.05.2009 and she was a minor on the date of incident. He has further stated that the allegations have been established during investigation. It has also been submitted that the information of the present application has been delivered to the informant through police, but no one has put in appearance on his behalf to oppose the bail application. 7. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the consistent statements of the victim wherein she has not levelled any allegation of commission of any misdeed by the applicant coupled with the fact that that the applicant is a young man having no previous criminal history and he is languishing in jail since 06.04.2024 and without making any observation, which may affect the merits of the case, I am of the view that the aforesaid facts are sufficient for making out a case for enlargement of the applicant on bail in the aforesaid crime. 8. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 9. Let the applicant-Ravi 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. (Subhash Vidyarthi, J.) Order Date :- 9.4.2025 Ram. Digitally signed by :- RAM SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench