HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 6972 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Counter affidavit filed on behalf of the State is taken on record. 2. 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. 3. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.158 of 2025, under Sections 65(2), 351 of BNS and Section 5M/ 6 of POCSO Act, Police Station Mishrikh, District Sitapur. 4. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the grand-daughter of the informant aged about 6 years was playing with children on 22.06.2025 at the home of the applicant and the applicant caught hold her and inserted his private part in her mouth. The other children were sent by the applicant somewhere else. Similar statements under Sections 180 and 183 of BNS was given. The medical on record naturally did not corroborate the allegation as only the allegation of oral sex was made. 5. Submission of the Counsel for the applicant is that it is a case of false implication as the applicant is staying with his uncle and his uncle was remarried and having affair with his daughter-in-law of the complainant, because of which, the present FIR has been lodged. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Dharmendra Kumar Gupta, Lalu Prasad Bhatt, Narendra Kumar Sharma Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Anshuman Mishra, Sachin Kumar Pandey Sanjay Kumar Verma @ Rannu .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) 6. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 7. Considering the nature of the allegations; the medical report and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 24.06.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 8. Let the applicant Sanjay Kumar Verma @ Rannu 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 28, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 6972 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench