HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 9971 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 applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No. 379 of 2025, under Sections 70(1), 351(3) BNS, P.S. Safdarganj, District Barabanki. 3. Learned counsel for the applicant argues that the FIR in question was lodged on 26.7.2025 alleging that the cousin brother in law of the informant was forming physical relation with her since last 16 years and was enticing some other girls for marriage for which an application was given on 15.6.2025 and because of that on 17.6.2025 when the victim was at home alone, she was pressurized to record the settlement and they were having talks and exchange of humor. Subsequently at 2:15 AM when the victim was alone the applicant as well as his brother in law committed wrong on her. The tentative age of the victim is around 35 years. In the statement under Sections 180 and 183 BNSS the version of the FIR was reiterated. Medical of the victim was done on 26.6.2025 which did not corroborate the allegations. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering the inordinate delay in lodging the FIR without giving any plausible explanation apart from the statement and there being no corroborative evidence, however, without commenting upon the merits of the case, the applicant who is in jail since 10.9.2025 and has no criminal Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Farooq Ayoob, Km. Pooja Tiwari Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Bhanu Pratap .....Applicant(s) State Odf U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) history is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Bhanu Pratap 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. October 15, 2025 J. K. Dinkar BAIL No. 9971 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- JESHU KUMAR DINKAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench Digitally signed by :- JESHU KUMAR DINKAR High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench