HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 12780 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.209 of 2025 under sections 137(2), 87, 65(1) BNS, and section 5L/6 POCSO Act, P.S. Pachpedwa, District Balrampur. 3. In terms of the FIR, allegations were levelled that the daughter of the informant aged about 14 years was enticed by the applicant. Subsequnelty, in her statement under section 180 BNSS, the victim did not support the prosecution and stated that both of them had gone to Gorakhpur where they stayed and physical relations were also formed. The tentative age of the victim is around sixteen and half years. 4. Considering the statement not supporting the prosecution, the applicant who has no criminal history and is in custody since 24.10.2025 is entitled to bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Siraj Khan 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; Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Mohd.Mateen, Mohd Zeesahn Ayub Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Siraj Khan .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) (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 19, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 12780 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench