HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8565 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.604 of 2024, under Sections 137(2), 70(2) of BNS and Section 5(Gha)/ 6 of POCSO Act, Police Station Gomtinagar, District Lucknow. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant aged about 17 years was enticed by some unknown person. Subsequently, in the statement under Section 180 of BNSS, the victim did not support the prosecution case and stated that she had gone out of her own without informing anyone and thereafter she had gone to mall and thereafter friend of her friend committed wrong on her and thereafter she went to Delhi. The tentative age of the victim is around 17 years. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the two statements of the victim that she left her home and thereafter went to Delhi and other places; and the medical report not corroborating the allegations and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 27.04.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Brijendra Kumar Tiwari, Brijendra Pratap Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ashish Chhabra .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Ashish Chhabra 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 25, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 8565 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench