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2025 DAILYLAW 186511 (ALL)

RAM JEEVAN v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME DEPTT. LKO. AND 3 OTHERS

BAIL/11802/2025 · 2025-12-03

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11802 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.391 of 2025 under section 137(2), 87, 64(1) BNS, and section 3/4 POCSO Act, P.S. Ishanagar, District Kheri. 3. In terms of the FIR, allegations were levelled that the daughter of the informant aged about 13 years was enticed by the applicant. Subsequently, in her statement under section 180 BNSS, the victim did not support the prosecution and stated that she was 18 years of age. In the statement under section 183 BNSS also, she admitted that she knew the applicant for the last one year, although allegations of rape were levelled. She also stated that she had gone along with the applicant to Lucknow on a train. The tentative age of victim is around 17 to 18 years. 4. Considering the said statement not supporting the prosecution and the medical not corroborating the allegations and the statement before the medical authorities that she had gone out of her own consent, the applicant who is in custody since 26.09.2025 and has no criminal history is entitled to bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Ram Jeevan be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Kaushal Kishore Tewari, Shakti Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ram Jeevan .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) Crime Number subject to his furnishing a personal bond and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) each of the like amount 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 3, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 11802 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench