HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 7672 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned AGA for the State and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.348 of 2025, under Sections 87, 137(2), 65(1) B.N.S. and Section 3/4 of POCSO Act, P.S. Kotwali City, District- Hardoi. 3. In terms of the FIR, it has been alleged that the daughter of the informant aged about 14 years was missing. No one was named in the FIR. In the statement of victim recorded under Section 180 BNSS, she stated that she met the applicant on Instagram and, thereafter, she went with him to Mumbai where they stayed as husband and wife. The medical report on record does not corroborate with the allegation levelled against the applicant. The tentative age of the victim is about 16-17 years. 4. Learned AGA has opposed the bail application. 5. Considering the aforesaid statement and the photographs showing the closeness between the applicant and the victim coupled with the fact that the applicant is in jail since 24.05.2025 having no criminal history, he is entitled to be enlarged on bail. In view thereof, the application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Mohd. Salman Shekh 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 Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Ravindra Kumar Dwivedi Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A. Mohd. Salman Shekh .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Its Prin. Secy. Home Lko. And 3 Others .....Opposite Party(s) 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 she 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 14, 2025 V. Sinha BAIL No. 7672 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- VAISHALI SINHA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench