ORDER :

1. The instant criminal appeal is preferred under Section 14(A)(2) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (in short, ‘the Act, 1989’) against order dated 22-04-2024 passed by the learned Special Judge (Atrocities), Mahasamund (C.G.) (in bail application No.316/2024) whereby the application filed by the appellant under Section 438 of the Cr.P.C. in connection with Crime No.66/2024 registered at Police Station Tumgaon, District Mahasamund (C.G.) for offence punishable under Sections 376(2)(n), 506-B of the IPC and Section 3(2)(v) of the Act, 1989, has been rejected.

2. Brief facts of the case, are that the prosecutrix has lodged a written report to the police on 31-03-2024 stating in it that she is working as contract Physical Instructor at Swami Atmanand School, District Sakti. In the month of September 2023 she got acquainted with appellant who was posted as Clerk at Municipal Council Arang. They started talking with each other by mobile phone. He showed his intimacy with her and proposed her. On 10-11-2023 he took her to Shane Punjab Dhaba, Tumgaon and took a room there. When she refused to stay in the room, he threatened her an