HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 2483 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.344 of 2024, under Sections 64(1), 318(3), 351(3), 127(2) of BNS and Section 3/4 of POCSO Act, Police Station Raje Sultanpur, District Ambedkar Nagar. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that that the applicant used to tease the daughter of the informant and subsequently wrong was also committed on her. In the statement under Section 180 of BNSS, the victim admitted that she knew the applicant since she was studying in Class-X and subsequently, on the threats, physical relations were formed on various occasions and when the marriage of the victim was to be solemnized elsewhere, the applicant had sent the videos to the proposed husband. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the said statement of the victim as well as the statement under Section 183 of BNSS, wherein similar statement was given and the age of the victim, which is around 17 years and ten months and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 08.12.2024, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Niyaj Ahmad, Jay Prakash Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ritik Gupta .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) released on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Ritik Gupta 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 4, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 2483 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench