HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12354 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State; Ms. Sanya, learned counsel for the informant and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.416 of 2025, under Section 64(2)(m), 127(4), 70(1) BNS, P.S. Khairighat, District Bahraich. 3. Submission of learned counsel for the applicant is that in terms of the FIR, allegations were levelled against one Bhupendra Singh, who is the main accused. As against the applicant, his name appeared for the first time in the statement under Section 180 BNSS wherein it was stated that the main accused as well as the applicant kept her for three months from where police brought her back. In the statement under Section 183 BNSS, allegations were levelled that several persons who are 5 in number including the applicant, had committed wrong on her. Allegations were also levelled against wife of one of the co-accused. In terms of the parity, the allegations against the applicant are lesser in terms of the severity as against the main accused. 4. Learned counsel for the informant relies upon a judgment of the Supreme Court in the case of Sagar v. State of U.P. & Anr.; 2025 SCC OnLine SC 2584, particularly in paras 11 & 16 wherein the principles of grant of bail on parity has been summarized. 5. In the present case, allegations against all the accused are inherently Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Manoj Kumar Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Lankesh Singh @ Hariom Singh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) improbable; the applicant was not even named in the FIR and the victim is aged about 21 years. As such, considering the said facts and the fact that the co-accused has been enlarged on bail, the applicant is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Lankesh Singh @ Hariom Singh be released on bail in aforesaid FIR number on his furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of 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. December 11, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 12354 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench