HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT ALLAHABAD LUCKNOW CRIMINAL MISC. BAIL APPLICATION No. - 6725 of 2025 Court No. - 12 HON'BLE PANKAJ BHATIA, J. 1. Heard learned counsel for the applicant as well as learned A.G.A. and perused the record. 2. The applicant seeks enlargement on bail in FIR No.239 of 2025, under Sections 64, 352, 351(3) of BNS, Police Station Kotwali Nagar, District Gonda. 3. In terms of the FIR, it was alleged that the sister of the informant was studying in second year of graduation when the applicant used to harass her and also force her for marriage. No allegation of rape was levelled in the FIR. Subsequently, however, in the statement under Sections 180 and 183 of BNS, the victim for the first time stated that on 02.01.2025, the applicant had committed wrong on her after taking some inappropriate photos and on 12.02.2025, wrong was committed on her. The tentative age of the victim is around 21 years. 4. Learned A.G.A. vehemently opposed the bail prayer. 5. Considering the substantial delay in lodging the FIR and there being no allegation of rape in the FIR and the fact that the applicant has no criminal antecedents except one minor offence and is languishing in jail since 24.05.2025, I am of the view that the applicant is entitled to be released Versus Counsel for Applicant(s) : Manoj Kumar Gupta, Achyutanand Pathak, Arun Kumar Tewari Counsel for Opposite Party(s) : G.A., Anand Kumar Tripathi, Praveen Kumar Tripathi Gaurav Chaturvedi .....Applicant(s) State Of U.P. Thru. Addl. Chief Secy. Home Deptt. Lko. .....Opposite Party(s) on bail. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 6. Let the applicant Gaurav Chaturvedi be released on bail in the abovesaid first information report number on his furnishing personal bonds and two reliable sureties of Rs.20,000/- each 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. November 12, 2025 akverma BAIL No. 6725 of 2025 2 (Pankaj Bhatia,J.) Digitally signed by :- ASHOK KUMAR VERMA High Court of Judicature at Allahabad, Lucknow Bench