ORDER :

The present petition is maintained by the petitioner under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (hereinafter to be called as “the Code”) for quashing of F.I.R No.4 of 2019 dated 10.2.2019, under Sections 363, 366 and 376 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (POCSO), registered at Women Police Station, Solan, District Solan, H.P. alongwith all consequential proceedings arising out of the said F.I.R., pending before the learned trial Court.

2. Briefly stated the facts, giving rise to the present petition, as per the prosecution story, are that respondent No.2 made a written complaint to the police alleging therein that his minor daughter/victim child and her niece went missing from the house on the night of 9.2.2019. He suspected the involvement of the petitioner in kidnapping the minor girls. The minor girls were later on handed over to the police on 11.2.2019 by their relatives and thereafter they were sent for their medical examination at Regional Hospital, Solan, where it was confirmed that the victim child has been subjected to sexual intercourse. On the basis of statement of the complainant, FIR in qu