ORDER :

Petitioner has approached this Court, invoking provisions of Section 438 Cr.P.C., seeking anticipatory bail in case FIR No. 98 of 2022, dated 10.6.2022, registered in Police Station Dharampur, District Solan, H.P. under Sections 354-A, 354, 376(3), 376(2)F of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’) and Sections 6 and 10 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (for short ‘POCSO Act’).

2. Status Report stands filed. Record was also made available.

3. Petitioner has also placed a certificate on record, whereby he has been given State Level Teachers Award-2020 for doing extra-ordinary work for characteristic, physical and cultural development of students. A Pen Drive has also been placed on record, allegedly having conversation of someone on behalf of complainant with relative of the petitioner making offer for amicable settlement.

4. Prosecution case is that on 10.6.2022 an e-mail bearing rapat No. 15 in Daily Diary dated 10.6.2022 was received in the Police Station, Dharampur from Police Chowki Subathu, informing that one Devinder Kumar had submitted a complaint about teasing the school girls by DPE, posted in Government Girls School, Subathu, during training of