JUDGMENT

Index to the Judgment

A. Facts of the Case

B. Submissions of Applicant and State

C. Judicial Precedents

D. Considerations for Grant of Bail: Court's Opinion

Balancing Fundamental Rights of the Accused and Victim while considering Grant of Bail

E. Analysis and Findings

Innocent, consensual, teenage love relationship distinguished from sexual abuse under threat, pressure, blackmailing and violence

F. Conclusion and Concerns of the Court

G. Directions

Swarana Kanta Sharma, J. (Oral)

CRL.M.A. 12642/2023

1. Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

2. Application stands disposed of.

BAIL APPLN. 1562/2023

3. By way of present application filed under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (`Cr.P.C.'), the accused/applicant seeks regular bail in case FIR bearing no. 130/2023, registered at Police Station Jahangir Puri, Delhi under Sections 328/376/506 of Indian Penal Code, 1860 (`IPC') and Section 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (`POCSO Act').

A. Facts of the Case

4. The present FIR was registered on 22.01.2023 on the complaint of prosecutrix wherein she had alleged that she had met and had become friends with the applicant three years ago, af