ORDER

Heard Sri. Tigadi Veeranna Gadigeppa, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and learned High Court Government Pleader for the respondent-State.

2. Respondent No.2, who is the complainant, though served with the notice of the petition, remained absent before this Court.

3. Brief facts of the case are as under:

A complaint came to be lodged by the second respondent with Bagepalli Police, Chikkaballapura District which was registered in Crime No.179/2022 on 27.04.2022, initially for the offence punishable under Section 363 of Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’).

4. Gist of the complaint averments reveal that the complainant belongs to Schedule Caste community and was the resident of 13th ward in Bagepalli Town along with her family members. She has a daughter (victim girl) aged 16 years. On 02.04.2022, the victim girl had been to church and at that juncture, the petitioner kidnapped her. Despite best efforts, the victim girl was not traced and therefore, the complainant approached the jurisdictional police with a missing complaint.

5. Police registered a case as aforesaid and investigated the matter. During the course of investigation, the investigating Agency was