HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9400 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Arun Kumar Mishra who appears for the informant, learned AGA and perused the record. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.0198 of 2025 under sections 115(2), 351(3), 352, 333, 324(2), 64(1) BNS, P.S. Payagpur, District Bahraich. 3. The FIR in question was lodged on 18.06.2025 alleging that on 17.06.2025 at about 9:00 pm, all the accused including the applicant entered into the home of the informant and started hurling acquisition and abuses and also started beating. It was also stated that certain items were broken. In the statement under section 180 BNSS for the first time, it was stated that around one year ago, after Diwali, the accused had committed wrong on the victim and had taken certain inappropriate photographs. A similar statement was given under section 183 BNSS. In the said statement, it was also stated by the victim that the victim had gone along with the applicant on his bike and thereafter had stopped for taking tea in which some intoxicants were added after which wrong was committed on the victim. The medical naturally does not corroborate any of the said allegations. The age of the victim is around thirty years. 4. Considering the fact that no such allegations were levelled in the FIR and the allegations with regard to the wrong committed are one year ago coupled with the fact that there is no material to corroborate the allegations apart Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Anil Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Santosh Kumar Verma .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko. And Another .....Opposite Party(s) from the statement, a case for bail is made out more so when the applicant has no criminal history and is in jail since 10.08.2025. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Santosh Kumar Verma be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) each of the like amount to the satisfaction of the court concerned with the following conditions: (a) The applicant shall execute a bond to undertake to attend the hearings; (b) The applicant shall not commit any offence similar to the offence of which he is accused or suspected of the commission; and (c) The applicant shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement, threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such facts to the Court or to any police officer or tamper with the evidence. October 7, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 9400 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench