JUDGMENT :

Krishan Pahal, J.

1. List has been revised.

2. Supplementary affidavit filed by learned counsel for the applicant is taken on record.

3. Learned A.G.A. has informed that notice to the informant has been served on 17.12.2024.

4. Heard Sri Siddharth Srivastava, learned counsel for the applicant, Sri Anit Kumar Shukla, learned A.G.A. for the State and perused the material placed on record.

5. Applicant seeks bail in Case Crime No.247 of 2024, under Sections 137(2), 61(2), 352, 351(2), 64 B.N.S. and 3/4 POCSO Act, Police Station- Bhatani, District- Deoria, during the pendency of trial.

6. As per prosecution story, the applicant is stated to have enticed away the minor daughter of the informant aged about 15 years on 6.8.2024.

7. Learned counsel for the applicant has argued that the applicant is absolutely innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case. The FIR is delayed by about fourteen days and there is no explanation of the said delay caused. The allegations are per se false. The victim in her statement recorded U/s 183 B.N.S.S. has categorically stated that she wanted to spend her life with the applicant and had gone with him out of her own sweet-will, as such, sh