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2025 DAILYLAW 168010 (ALL)

RAUNAK v. THE STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME DEPTT. LKO.

BAIL/9450/2025 · 2025-10-07

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9450 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.138 of 2025 under sections 87, 64, 127(2), 351(3) BNS, P.S. Hariyawan, District Hardoi. 3. The FIR in question was lodged as a missing person report. It was also stated she had taken certain money and gold also along with her and was enticed by the applicant. Subsequently, in the statement under section 180 BNSS, she stated that she had gone out of her own free will and she knew the applicant since the last one year and wanted to marry him. In the statement under section 183 BNSS, it was stated that she knew the applicant for the last two three months and was not aware that he was married. It was also stated that she was taken by use of force by four five people and wrong was also committed on her. In short, she denied the statement made under section 180 BNSS. The medical on record does not corroborate any allegation of the applicant being subjected to any force. The age of the victim is around 20 years. 4. Considering prima-facie evidence to implicate the applicant, to be a weak evidence, a case for bail is made out more so when the applicant has no criminal history and is in custody since 25.07.2025. Thus the bail application is allowed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Alok Kumar Mishra, Anjali Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Raunak .....Applicant(s) The State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) 5. Let the applicant Raunak 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. 9450 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench