JUDGMENT

Suresh Kumar Kait, J. - The hearing has been conducted through video conferencing.

1. Vide this petition, petitioner is seeking bail in FIR No. 496/2019, under Sections 363/376/342/506 IPC and Section 4 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, registered at police station Harsh Vihar, Delhi. Petitioner is stated to be in custody since 02.10.2019.

2. The case of the prosecution, as per the FIR, is that the complainant has alleged that a month prior to the incident, she had met the petitioner and became friendly with him. On 30.09.2019, he took her to a restaurant where they had chowmin and thereafter, they boarded a bus and when she asked as to where they were going, petitioner first said that they were just roaming about and after some time he asked her to remain quite or to face dire consequences. Thereafter, prosecutrix/complainant was taken to someone's house by the petitioner, where she met one uncle. Prosecutrix/complainant requested that Uncle to drop her to her house, to which he replied that she should first call her parents to get petitioner's parents released and thereafter only, she would be sent to her house. Prosecutrix/complainant has further alleged