HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 7000 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard Shri Raghvendra Mani Ojha, learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State, Shri Alok Kumar, learned counsel for the informant and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No. 89 of 2025, under sections 376D, 342, 506, 365 IPC, P.S. Jethwara, District Pratapgarh. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant argues that the FIR in question was lodged under Section 175(3) BNSS alleging that the informant used to receive calls from various numbers and she was being harassed and on 13.6.2024 when she was going in the way the applicant forces her and wrong was committed on her. The said application was filed on 3.12.2024. The tentative age of the victim is around 24 years. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering the substantial delay in lodging the complaint without there being any valid explanation and the the tentative age of the victim is around 24 years and there being no material to corroborate the allegations, however, without commenting upon the merits of the case, the applicant who is in jail since 20.6.2025 and has no criminal history is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Mahendra Yadav be released on bail in aforesaid Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Abhinav Srivastava, Ankit Gaur, Mayankar Singh, Raghvendra Mani Ojha Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Arti Yadav, Salik Ram Tiwari Mahendra Yadav .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Deptt. Home Lko .....Opposite Party(s) FIR number on his furnishing a personal bond with two sureties of Rs.20,000/- each to the satisfaction of 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 26, 2025 J. K. Dinkar BAIL No. 7000 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- JESHU KUMAR DINKAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench