JUDGMENT

Cheekati Manavendranath Roy, J. - This Criminal Petition under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, is filed to enlarge the petitioner on bail in the event of his arrest.

2. The petitioner is the sole accused in Crime No.76 of 2022 of Kancharapalem Police Station, Visakhapatnam.

3. a case under Sections 417 and 376 IPC was registered against the petitioner in the above crime.

4. Briefly stated, it is the case of the prosecution that the petitioner and the de facto complainant were in love with each other. They both went to various places like beach, park, hotels etc. On 13.07.2021, the petitioner and the de facto complainant went to araku and there he promised to marry her and thereby induced her to have sexual intercourse with him and accordingly he had sexual intercourse with her. Thereafter, he resiled from his promise and did not marry her. He also refused to marry her when she requested him. Therefore, it is stated that the petitioner has cheated the de facto complainant and thereby committed the aforesaid offences.

5. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

6. Learned counsel for the petitioner would