HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11446 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.264 of 2024 under sections 64 & 351(2) BNS and section 3/4 POCSO Act, P.S. Kotwali Bikapur, District Ayodhya. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the informant was sleeping outside the home and at about 2:30 am night, he heard certain commotion, then went inside where he saw the applicant along with his daughter forming physical relations and thereafter the applicant ran away after issuing threats. In the statement under section 180 BNSS, the victim stated that her father was sleeping along with the brother outside and mother was sleeping inside the room when the applicant came and took her in a room and formed physical relations and when father and mother came, he ran away. The tentative age of the victim is around seventeen years. 4. Considering the delay of about two days in lodging the FIR, and the medical not corroborating the allegations, the applicant who is in custody since 06.07.2024 and has no criminal history is entitled for bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Shivnath be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Crime Number subject to his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Firoz Ahmad Khan Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Shivnath .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Of Home Lko And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) 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. November 24, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 11446 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench