HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11276 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Supplementary affidavit filed today is taken on record. 2. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. and perused the record. 3. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.255 of 2025, under Sections 64(2)K, 352, 351(3) of BNS, Police Station Kotwali Dehat, District Gonda. 4. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant, who was deaf and dumb, had gone out of her home, the applicant caught hold her and started misbehaving with her and tried to commit rape, however, on raising hue and cry, she could somehow manage to save herself. In the statement under Section 183 of BNS, the victim stated that the applicant was touching her private parts. No allegation of rape was levelled also. The tentative age of the victim is around 23-24 years. 5. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 6. Considering the statements of the victim, there is no allegation of rape against the applicant, who is aged about 60 years; the applicant has no pending criminal case and the applicant is languishing in jail since 03.07.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ritesh Kumar, Abhishek Mishra Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Lala Prasad .....Applicant(s) State of U.P. .....Opposite Party(s) 7. Let the applicant Lala Prasad be released on bail in the abovesaid first information report number 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 19, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 11276 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench