HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 5246 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. No one appears for the informant despite notice. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.43 of 2025 under sections 64(1) BNS, 3/4 POCSO Act, 3(2)(v) SC/ST Act, P.S. Shivratanganj, District Amethi. 3. The FIR in question was lodged alleging that the daughter of the informant aged about 17 years had gone along with her sister when the applicant started misbehaving with her and when the villagers reached there, he ran away. No allegation of rape were levelled. 4. In the statement recorded subsequently before the medical authorities, only the allegation of misbehaviour were levelled, no allegation of rape were levelled. The medical on record does not record the allegation of rape. However, in the statement under section 183 BNSS, the victim alleged the commission of rape also. 5. Considering the FIR allegation and the statement made before the medical authorities not alleging rape and the medical not corroborating the allegations, the applicant who is in custody since 18.04.2025 is entitled for the bail. The bail application is allowed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sudheer Kumar Mishra, Manish Kumar Gupta, Vivek Chandra Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Sachin Verma Sujeet Kumar Maurya .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. U.P. Lko. And Others .....Opposite Party(s) 6. Let the applicant Sujeet Kumar Maurya be released on bail in aforesaid FIR/Case 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 8, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 5246 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench