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2025 DAILYLAW 175405 (ALL)

ASHOK KUMAR VERMA v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. U.P. AND 2 OTHERS

/12037/2025 · 2025-12-04

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12037 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.0194 of 2025 under sections 64(2)M, 137(2), 87, 126(2), 351(3) BNS, P.S. Pachpedwa, District Balrampur. 3. In terms of the FIR, allegations were levelled that the daughter of the informant aged about 17 years had gone out of home on 01.10.2025 when the applicant enticed her for marriage and when the villagers saw, he went inside the sugarcane field along with the daughter and both of them hide themselves. In the statement under section 180 BNSS, the victim stated that the applicant wanted to marry her and she specifically denied that anything wrong was done. Subsequently, after about three days, the victim alleged that wrong was also committed on her. The medical on record does not corroborate the allegations. The tentative age of the victim is around 20 years. 4. Considering the huge variance in the two statements and the medical not corroborating the allegations, the applicant who is in custody since 02.10.2025 and has no criminal history is entitled to bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Ashok Kumar Verma be released on bail in aforesaid Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Shesh Ram Verma Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ashok Kumar Verma .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. U.P. And 2 Others .....Opposite Party(s) 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. December 4, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 12037 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench