HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 3414 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard Ms. Neelam Pandey, learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. and Sri Amrendra Singh, learned Counsel appearing on behalf of the complainant. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.53 of 2024, under Sections 376AB, 506 IPC; Section 5m/ 6 of POCSO Act and Section 3(2)(v) and Section 3(1)(Da) of SC/ST Act, Police Station Mahila Thana, District Ayodhya. 3. In terms of the FIR lodged on 22.11.2024, it was alleged that since 05.01.2020 on the false pretext of marriage, physical relations were being formed and the victim was carrying a fetus of three months and now the applicant is refusing to marry her. In the statement under Section 180 of BNSS, the victim disclosed her age as 17 years and stated that since 2020, physical relations were formed on the false pretext of marriage. Almost similar statement was given under Section 183 of BNSS. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the inordinate delay in lodging the FIR and the fact that prior enactment of BNSS, the false pretext of marriage was not mentioned in a specific offence under IPC coupled with the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 24.11.2024, I Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Rahul Srivastava, Neelam Pandey, Rajesh Kumar, Subham Srivastava Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Amrendra Singh Ankur Verma .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Deptt. Of Home U.P. Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Ankur Verma be released on bail in the aforesaid first information report on his furnishing personal bonds and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- each 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. November 7, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 3414 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench