JUDGMENT

Ahsanuddin Amanullah, J. - The matter has been heard via video conferencing.

2. Heard Mr. Bharat Lal, learned counsel for the petitioner; Mr. Amit Kumar Rakesh, learned Additional Public Prosecutor (hereinafter referred to as the 'APP') for the State and Mr. Jay Ram Prasad, learned counsel for the informant.

3. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Jhajha PS Case No. 236 of 2019 dated 15.08.2019, instituted under Sections 323, 354(B), 307, 376, 506, 509, 366, 313 and 394/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

4. The allegation against the petitioner is that he had established physical relationship with the informant in the year 2012 and even after getting a job in the BSF in the year 2013, he had maintained the relationship and had promised to marry her and in the year 2018, they had cohabited and when the informant had conceived, she was made to abort and thereafter when she had gone to the house of the petitioner, initially she was told to keep quiet, but later, she was abused, threatened and assaulted and was told that she should forget about the whole thing and they would get the petitioner married somewhere else.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that aft