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2025 DAILYLAW 197128 (ALL)

TAUHID KHAN v. STATE OF U.P. THRU. PRIN. SECY. HOME LKO. AND 3 OTHERS

BAIL/11708/2024 · 2025-10-08

Pankaj Bhatia

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HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 11708 of 2024 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.484 of 2024 under sections 137(2), 87, 65(1) BNS and section 3/4 POCSO Act, P.S. Mohammadi, District Kheri. 3. The FIR in question was lodged, alleging that the daughter of the informant was enticed by the applicant. Subsequently, in the statement under Section 180, BNSS, the victim stated that she had gone out of her own free will to Delhi and knew the applicant for the last three years. Subsequently, the statement was changed. The tentative age of the victim is around 17 years. 4. Considering the huge variance in the statements and the medical not corroborating the allegations, the applicant, who is in custody since 15/8/2024 and has no criminal history, is entitled to bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 5. Let the applicant Tauhid 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: Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Iqbal Ali, Amit Kumar Awasthi, Syed Fazal Abbas Rizvi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Dheeraj Srivastava Tauhid Khan .....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. October 8, 2025 VNP/- BAIL No. 11708 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench