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2025 DAILYLAW 187398 (ALL)

AJAY SONI v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. AND 3 OTHERS

/12040/2025 · 2025-12-04

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12040 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.719 of 2025 under section 137(2), 87, 352, 351(3), 65(1) BNS and 5L/6 POCSO Act, P.S. Para, District Lucknow. 3. In terms of the FIR, allegations were levelled that the daughter of the informant aged about 15 years used to talk to the applicant and when the same was resisted, he threatened and stated that ultimately he had taken the daughter of the informant without the consent of the parents. In the statement under section 180 BNSS, the victim disclosed her age as 19 years and did not support the prosecution. Similarly, in the statement under section 183 BNSS also, she did not support the prosecution and stated that both of them marriage. 4. Considering the two statements, the applicant who is in custody since 13.10.2025 is entitled for bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Ajay Soni 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: Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Sudhaker Prakash Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Ajay Soni .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) (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 VNP/- BAIL No. 12040 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench