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2025 DAILYLAW 165312 (ALL)

KARAN v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO.

BAIL/8879/2025 · 2025-09-17

Subhash Vidyarthi

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8879 of 2025 Court No. - 13 HON'BLE SUBHASH VIDYARTHI, J. 1. Heard Shri Surendra Kumar Mishra, the learned counsel for the applicant, Ms. Shikha Sinha, the learned A.G.A.-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.286 of 2025 under Sections 137(2), 87 of B.N.S. registered at Police Station- Mailani, District- Kheri. 3. The aforesaid case has been registered on the basis of an F.I.R. lodged against the applicant and his family members alleging that the applicant had enticed away the informant's daughter aged 16 years on 27.06.2025. 4. In the statement of the victim recorded under Section 180 B.N.S.S., she stated that she is aged 16 years, she has studied upto Class X and she has gone with the applicant to Nagpur and married him. Upon coming to know about the FIR, she came back on her own. She categorically stated that the applicant had not committed any misdeed against her. 5. The medico-legal examination report of the victim mentions no mark of injury or sign of use of force. Ossification test was not conducted to ascertain the age of the victim. 6. In the statement of the victim recorded under Section 183 B.N.S.S., she reiterated her earlier version and she stated that she wants to live with her husband (the applicant). 7. In the affidavit filed in support of the bail application, it has been stated that the applicant is a young man aged 23 years having no criminal history and he has been falsely implicated in the present case. 8. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application and he has submitted that the allegations have been established during investigation and a charge-sheet has been submitted on 06.09.2025. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Surendra Kumar Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Karan .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 9. 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 against the applicant coupled with the fact that the applicant is a young man aged 23 years having no criminal history and he is languishing in jail since 15.07.2025 whereas the investigation already stands concluded, 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. 10. Accordingly, this bail application stands allowed. 11. Let the applicant- Karan 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, unless his/her appearance exempted by the trial Court. September 17, 2025 -Amit K- BAIL No. 8879 of 2025 2 (Subhash Vidyarthi,J.) Digitally signed by :- AMIT KUMAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench