No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS BA1 No. 1874 of 2025 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Ms. Divya Jain, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. Pradeep Lohani, learned Brief Holder for the State. 3. The applicant – Vishal Sahu, who is in judicial custody in connection with FIR/Case Crime No. 367 of 2025, under Sections 137, 64(2)(m) and Section 65(1) of BNS and Section 3(a) r/w Section 4(2), 5(l) r/w Section 6 of POCSO Act, registered at P.S.- SIDCUL, District Haridwar, has sought his release on bail. 4. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the records. 5. In this case, father of the victim lodged an FIR, wherein, it is alleged that the applicant has enticed her minor daughter and has taken her away with him. Consequently, an FIR was lodged under Sections 137(2) of BNS. 6. Learned counsel for the applicant would argue that the applicant is languishing in since 29.07.2025. It is further contended by learned counsel for the applicant that the victim, in her statements recorded under Section 180 and 183 of BNSS, has not supported the prosecution case; that, in fact, she has submitted that she is a major girl of 20 years of age and her date of birth was wrongly recorded in the school register; that she has also submitted that she has married with the applicant. 7. Learned State Counsel, on the other hand, has vehemently opposed the bail application. 8. Having considered the submissions, under the facts and circumstances of the case, the fact that the trial has yet not commenced and also after perusing the statement of the victim, this Court is of the view that it is a case fit for bail and the applicant deserves to be enlarged on bail. 9. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 10. Let the applicant be released on bail on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties each of the like amount, to the satisfaction of the court concerned. (Alok Mahra J.) 18.02.2026 Ujjwal