HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12021 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA for the State; Shri Raghunath Prasad, learned counsel for the informant and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.84 of 2025, under Section 64(2)(DA), 351(3) of BNS & Section 5(L)/6 of POCSO Act, P.S. Hariyawan, District Hardoi. 3. FIR in question was lodged alleging that daughter of the informant who used to help her father was proposed to be married and when the applicant came to know of the same, he started pressurizing her for marriage and when she refused to talk to the applicant, the applicant committed wrong on her. In the statement under Section 180 BNSS, the victim admitted that she knew the applicant since long and on 30.04.2025 a wrong was committed by the applicant. FIR in question was lodged on 07.05.2025. In the statement under Section 183 BNSS also, a similar statement was given. Tentative age of the victim is around 19 years. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering the inordinate delay in lodging the FIR and there being no corroboration by the medical on record, the applicant who is in custody since 08.05.2025 and has no criminal antecedents, is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Anurudh Kumar Singh, Arvind Kumar, Narendra Singh Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Sarvesh .....Applicant(s) The State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) 6. Let the applicant Sarvesh be released on bail in aforesaid 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. December 4, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 12021 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench