ORDER :

Bail petitioner namely Dumnu Ram, who is behind the bars since 4.9.2020, has approached this Court in the instant proceedings filed under Section 439 Cr.PC., for grant of regular bail in case FIR 0035, dated 13.2.2016, registered at PS Sundernagar, District Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, under Sections 376 and 452 of the IPC and Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

2. Pursuant to order dated 13.9.2021, passed by this Court, Respondent-State has filed the status report. ASI Rajinder Singh, I.O. P.S. Sundernagar, District Mandi, H.P., is also present with records. Record perused and returned. Close scrutiny of record/status report reveals that on 13.2.2016, victim-prosecutrix presented one complaint at Police Station Sundernagar, alleging therein that on 12.2.2016, she alongwith her father had gone to Slapar Hospital for getting her eye checked. At 2:00pm, her both sisters also met her and thereafter, their father after having purchased some articles asked them to return to their house. She alleged that after some time, she asked her two sisters to come slowly, whereas she went fast and when she reached Dhaarli Village, two boys were sitting there. She al