HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11261 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.259 of 2025, under Sections 87, 137(2), 351(3), 70(2) of BNS and Section 5(G)/6, 16/17 of POCSO Act, Police Station Masauli, District Barabanki. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the daughter of the informant was enticed by the co-accused Kadir and one unknown person. Subsequently, in the statement under Section 180 of BNSS, the victim stated that she administered sleeping pills to her parents and thereafter gone along with the co-accused Kadir and stayed with him as husband and wife. In the statement under Section 183 of BNSS, there was slight variance wherein she stated that she was taken on a motorcycle by the said two persons and physical relations were formed by the co-accused. No allegation of rape was levelled against the applicant. The tentative age of the victim is 17 years. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the two statements of the victim and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is languishing in jail since 22.08.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Upendra Prakash Pathak, Pooja Yadav Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Nazmuddin .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Nazmuddin 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 19, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 11261 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench