Point of Law: Crime against Women and Children - Offence of trafficking women - Bail dismissed - Release of petitioner on bail would have adverse impact on society, encouraging the law-breakers involved in commission of offence of trafficking women within and out of country.

ORDER :

By way of this petition, petitioner is seeking regular bail under Section 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (in short ‘Cr.P.C.’), in case FIR No.34 of 2021, dated 5.3.2021, registered in Police Station Sadar, Shimla, H.P., under Sections 363, 366A, 370(4), 506, 201 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code (in short ‘IPC’).

2. The petitioner was arrested on 8.3.2021 and, after remaining in police custody, now he is in judicial custody.

3. Status report(s) stand filed, wherein it is stated that on 5.3.2021 victim, aged about 15 years, who is studying in Class 9th, had left her home at 9.30 a.m. to attend her school i.e. Sanatan Dharam Senior Secondary School, Ganj Bazaar, Shimla, and when she did not return home in the evening, her father, on inquiry, had received information that on that day students were not called in the school. With aforesaid details, father of the victim had approached Police Station Sadar, Shimla, with suspicion that someone had abducted his daughter after alluring and misleading her.

4. It is further stated in Status Report that on complaint of father of the victim, case under Section 363 IPC was registered and investigation started. During investigation, location of mobile number of victim was found in Haryana leading to the clue to the police that victim was travelling towards Delhi. Whereupon, police party was sent to Delhi in search of victim and it was also found that victim was having too many talks on two mobile numbers (96398-21301 and 62382-27896), therefore, CDRs and location of those two numbers were also requisitioned.

5. Investigating Officer, on 6.3.2021, after reaching in Police Station Badarpur, Delhi, started investigation and found that last location of victim, on 5.3.2021 at about 8.19 p.m., was found at Panipat and thereafter her phone was found switched off. From CDRs of two mobile numbers, Investigating Officer had contacted on some mobile numbers, which were found in contact of these two mobile numbers and during this exercise, one mobile number 95606-42747 was found to be of one Jatin Malik, who, in response, informed the Investigating Officer that he is having a Maruti Car bearing registration No.DL9CAP-3819 and on 5.3.2021 he had gone to Ambala from Delhi to drop a passenger and at Ambala a girl had met him, who had disclosed that she was going to Delhi, whereupon, when he was taking that girl to Delhi alongwith him and had reached near Panipat, mobile phone of that girl had switched off and for that reason that girl had contacted someone through his (Jatin’s) mobile and the person, with whom she had talked, had disclosed his name to him (Jatin) as Zuber and further that Zuber had told him that one boy will send him location from mobile number 96671-56859 and had asked him (Jatin) to drop the victim on that location and thereafter on receiving location of Badarpur, Delhi from the aforesaid number, he had dropped the victim at Badarpur NTPC Chowk at about 10.30 p.m. on 5.3.2021, wherefrom a boy had taken her.

6. During investigation, it was revealed that the boy, who had sent the location, was the petitioner (Ibrahim) residing at Badarpur in a room rented in a building known as ‘Akash’. During search for the petitioner, his room was found locked and it came in notice that he was hiding in some other house in the room of his friend, wherefrom he was apprehended and taken to Badarpur Police Station and shown to Jatin, and Jatin had identified him the same boy to whom he had handed over the girl on 5.3.2021.

7. During interrogation, the petitioner had disclosed that on 5.3.2021 he had received calls from Zuber and Nazim @ Sameer, the boys belonging to his village, who were working with him earlier at Delhi, but presently Zuber was at Chennai, whereas, Nazim @ Sameer was in Kerala. He had further revealed that both of them had informed him that one ‘X’ named girl (victim) would come in some vehicle at Badarpur NTPC Gate and they had asked him to take her to his quarter and further that