HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 957 of 2024 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant, learned AGA and perused the record. No one appears for the informant despite notice. 2. The accused-applicant seeks bail in FIR/Case Crime No.268 of 2023 under sections 376-D, 342, 504, 506, IPC and section 3/4 POCSO Act, and section 67 IT Act, P.S. Sharda Nagar, District Lakhimpur Kheri. 3. The FIR in question was lodged alleging that the applicant used to harass the daughter of the informant, for which an FIR was lodged as case crime no.560 of 2019. Subsequently, on 12/06/2023, the applicant took her home and committed wrong on her and also took some inappropriate photographs. Allegations were levelled against as many as six persons. Subsequently, the medical examination of the victim was conducted on 07/10/2023, which did not corroborate any of the allegations. 4. The report has been sent by the trial court, stating that the statement of the victim has been recorded, wherein she has supported the allegations levelled against the applicant, however, the cross examination which is on record prima-facie does not suggest the use of force. 5. As statement of the victim has already been recorded and the applicant has no criminal history apart from a case lodged by the same informant against Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Satendra Kumar (Singh), Abhishek Misra, Dharm Trivedi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Amrish Verma .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy., Home, Lucknow And Others .....Opposite Party(s) the applicant and there is no material on record to suggest that the applicant if enlarged on bail can adversely affect the trial, the applicant is entitled for the bail. Thus the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Amrish Verma 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; (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. 957 of 2024 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VISHVANATH PRASAD SHUKLA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench