HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12908 of 2024 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.352 of 2024 under section 137(2), 87, 131, 352, 127(2), 76, 65(1), 351(3) BNS and Section 3/4 POCSO Act, P.S. Lalganj, District Pratapgarh. 3. The FIR in question was lodged, alleging that on 27.08.2024, the daughter of the informant aged about 15 years was enticed by the applicant. In the statement under section 183 BNSS, the victim stated that she was taken on a motorcycle by two persons including the applicant and she was sitting at the end of the motorcycle. Allegations were levelled of inappropriately touching her. No allegation of rape were levelled. The tentative age of the victim, as per the medical examination, is eighteen years. 4. Considering the said statement and there being no allegation of rape and no corroboration in the medical report, the applicant who is in custody since 01.09.2024 is entitled for the bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Sachin Saroj be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Pradeep Kumar Verma, Devendra Bahadur Yadav, Lalji Yadav, Ramakar Shukla, Sultan Hasan Ibrahim, Syed Ahmad Abbas Zaidi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Sachin Saroj .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Or. .....Opposite Party(s) 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 9, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 12908 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench