HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8358 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Shri Shashank Verma, learned counsel for the applicant, Shri S.P. Singh, learned State counsel and perused the records. 2. The instant application has been filed seeking release of the applicant on bail in Case Crime No.335 of 2025, under Sections 87 & 137(2) of B.N.S., registered at Police Station Dhaurahra, District Lakhimpur Kheri. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged on 23.05.2025 stating that the applicant had enticed away the informant's daughter, whose date of birth is 03.01.2009. 4. In the statement of the alleged victim recorded under Section 180 BNSS, she stated that she is aged about 16 years, she knows the applicant for the past three year, she had asked her mother to get her married with the applicant but her mother was trying to get her married to some other person and, therefore, she had herself left her home and she asked the applicant to take her away. Initially the applicant did not accede to her request but on her insistence, the applicant accompanied her to Lucknow. Upon coming to know about the F.I.R., she came back. The victim declined for her medico- legal examination. 5. In the statement of the victim recorded under Section 183 BNSS, she reiterated her earlier version and she categorically stated that during the past three years of relationship, the applicant did not commit any misdeed against her and the applicant had not taken her forcibly. 6. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Shashank Verma, Saurabh Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Sujeet Kumar @ Sujeet .....Applicant(s) State Fo U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) that the applicant is innocent young man aged 19 years, he has been falsely implicated in the present case and he has no criminal history. 7. Learned State counsel has opposed the bail application and he has submitted that the allegations have been established during the investigation and a charge sheet has been submitted on 08.07.2025. 8. Having considered the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case and keeping in view the consistent statement of the victim couple with the fact that the applicant is a young man aged 19 years, having no criminal history and he is languishing in jail since 24.06.2025, 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. 9. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 10. Let the applicant - Sujeet Kumar @ Sujeet be released on bail in the aforementioned 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. September 3, 2025 S. Shivhare BAIL No. 8358 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- SHASHANK SHIVHARE High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench