HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 13210 of 2024 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant; Shri Lalit Kumar Singh, learned counsel holding brief of Shri Karunakar Srivastava, learned counsel for the informant, learned AGA for the State and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.229 of 2024, under Section 376, 376(2)N, 504, 506 IPC, Section 5L/6 of POCSO Act & Section 3(2)(V) of SC/ST Act, P.S. Chapiya, District Gonda. 3. In terms of the FIR it was alleged that the informant was taken from a school on 13.03.2023 by the applicant and wrong was committed on her. Subsequently, it was promised that he would marry and on false pretext of marriage, physical relations were formed on various occasions against her consent and now the applicant was refusing to marry her. FIR in question was lodged on 29.08.2024. Age of the victim is around 16 years as per High School Certificate. However, the counter affidavit indicates the tentative age of the victim to be around 18 to 19 years. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering the submissions and the allegations that the relationship continued over a long span of time and there being inordinate delay in lodging the FIR coupled with the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents and is in custody since 15.09.2024, the applicant is entitled to be Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Chandra Shekhar Shukla, Ram Prakash Verma, Sarvesh Kumar Pandey Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Karunakar Srivastava Vinay Kumar .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Vinay Kumar 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 27, 2025 nishant BAIL No. 13210 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- NISHANT MOHAN High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench