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2025 DAILYLAW 175921 (ALL)

PUJAN v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. AND OTHERS

BAIL/6090/2025 · 2025-11-07

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 6090 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. and perused the record. Despite service of notice, no one appeared on behalf of the complainant. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.118 of 2025, under Sections 137(2), 87, 64(1) of BNS and Section 5(J)(II)/ 6 of POCSO Act, Police Station Mitauli, District Kheri. 3. The FIR in question was lodged alleging that the daughter of the informant aged about 17 years was enticed by the applicant. Subsequently, in the statement under Section 183 of BNSS, the victim stated that she wanted to marry with the applicant and is also carrying a fetus. She admitted that physical relations continued over a span of two years. The applicant is also ready and willing to marry with the victim in terms of the affidavit filed today, which is taken on record. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the two statement of the victim and the statements of both the counsel that the applicant and the victim want to marry and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 21.04.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Arun Singh Somvanshi, Subodh Kumar Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Devi Prasad Maurya, Priya Chaturvedi, Sandeep Kumar Pujan .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And Others .....Opposite Party(s) released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Pujan 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. 6090 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench