Neutral Citation No. - 2025:AHC-LKO:16642 Court No. - 15 Case :- CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 2442 of 2025 Applicant :- Vinod Rathore Opposite Party :- State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And Counsel for Applicant :- Abhishek Dixit Counsel for Opposite Party :- G.A. Hon'ble Subhash Vidyarthi,J. 1. Heard Sri Abhishek Dixit, learned counsel for the applicant as well as Sri Arvind Kumar Pandey, 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. 08 of 2025, under Sections 354, 376, 504 and 506 I.P.C., registered at Police Station- Madehganj, District- Lucknow. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 14.01.2025 on the basis of an application under Section 156 (3) Cr.P.C. filed against four persons including the applicant, stating that the informant resides in a rented accommodation in a house and the applicant also used to reside in a separate portion in the same house; that the applicant had prepared an obscene video of the informant and by threatening to spread that video viral, he forced the informant to make physical relations with him. The informant further stated that the applicant had forwarded the obscene video to some other persons. The applicant pressurized and persuaded the informant to elope with him and she went with him while taking away Rs.2,50,000/- in cash and jewellery of worth Rs.3,50,000/-, but, thereafter, the applicant left the informant. 4. In the affidavit filed in support of bail application it has been stated that the applicant is innocent, he has been falsely implicated in the present case and he has no criminal history. 5. The learned A.G.A. has opposed the prayer for bail application on the basis of instructions provided to him. However, the instructions are silent upon recovery of any obscene video. 6. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the fact that the informant is a matured lady aged 33 years; that although the informant has alleged blackmailing on the strength of obscene video, she could not provide any material in support of this allegation; that the applicant has no previous criminal history and he is languishing in jail since 22.01.2025 and the investigation already stands concluded and the charge sheet has been submitted on 11.03.2025 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. 7. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 8. Let the applicant- Vinod Rathore 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. (Subhash Vidyarthi, J.) Order Date :- 24.3.2025/ Gurpreet Singh Digitally signed by :- GURPREET SINGH High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench