Allahabad High Court on Tuesday gave a big relief to Cricketer Yash Dayal on his petition to quash an FIR registered against him in Ghaziabad on a complaint by a girl for sexual harassment. The Court granted interim protection from arrest to the cricketer until the next hearing date.
A division bench of Justices Siddharth Verma and Anil Kumar stayed any police action on the FIR lodged against Yash Dayal after hearing the parties.
The court issued a notice to the defendants for opposing the relief and sought their reply. In this petition, the cricketer has made the state government, the SHO of Indirapuram police station, and the victim as defendants.
An FIR against cricketer Yash Dayal was lodged on July 6 by a young woman at Indirapuram police station in Ghaziabad. Earlier on June 21, the woman had complained on the Chief Minister’s portal and accused cricketer Yash Dayal of sexual harassment.
The cricketer has been accused of sexual harassment for five years. After making the complaint on the Chief Minister’s portal in the case, when no action was taken, the victim resorted to social media platforms. After sending police notices, when the cricketer did not record his statement, police filed a case against the cricketer under Section 69 of BNS on July 6.
The victim has also revealed before the police that she had known Yash Dayal since November 2020. Both first connected through social media, and they had a first meeting in Prayagraj, and they had been friends for the last five years.
The victim said that she had stayed several times at the cricketer’s house. She said Yash Dayal and his family kept assuring her marriage to Yash.
Yash Dayal was part of the Gujarat Titans team in 2022, and the team became the champion.
” I was also present during the final match with his family. Everything was moving properly, but in the last two and a half years, Yash Dayal formed relations with several other girls,” she alleged in her complaint.
Earlier, Dayal had filed a case against the victim girl and others at Khuldabad police station in Prayagraj in 2021 for threatening to commit suicide after she refused to return his Rs 8 lakh taken as a loan. Yash, in his complaint, had alleged that from time to time, she kept taking money supposedly for treatment, college fees, saying that she would return the money by May 2025. Along with this, she also took money for shopping, he added.
Through social media, he came to know that the same woman had given an application against him in Ghaziabad. He also alleged that the entire incident was planned to implicate him and to harm him financially.