HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 8299 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.122 of 2025, under Sections 65(2) of BNS and Section 3/4 of POCSO Act, Police Station Pachperwa, District Balrampur. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that on 30.06.2025, the daughter of the informant aged about 5 years had gone along with his brother when the applicant caught hold her and and removed her cloths and started kissing her. No allegation of rape was levelled under Section 161 of Cr.P.C. Before the medical authority also, no allegation of rape was levelled. The medical on record does not indicate any injury and even the hymen was intact. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the statement of the victim; the allegations levelled in the FIR; the medical not suggesting the commission of having penetrative sexual assault as defined under Section 3/4 of POCSO Act and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 01.07.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Shahid Salam, Abdul Rehman Shaikh, Farhan Ahmad Khan, Swadha Kumari Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Akram Ali .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Secy. Home Lko . And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Akram Ali 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. December 2, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 8299 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench