ORDER

The Court made the following order:-

The petitioner, who is arrayed as sole accused was arrested on 29/11/2021 and remanded to judicial custody on 30/11/2021 for the offences punishable under sections 366(A) IPC @ 5(1), 5(j)(ii), 6(1) of POCSO Amendment Act, in Crime No.25 of 2021 on the file of the respondent police, seeks bail.

2.The case of the prosecution is that the accused person on the false promise of marrying the victim girl, had sexual intercourse with her.

3.Heard the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner and the learned Government Advocate (Criminal side) appearing for the respondent.

4.Originally the case was registered under 'girl missing' and during the course of investigation, it was found that only this petitioner, kidnapped the victim girl and later, committed sexual penetrative assault.

5.Now the learned counsel appearing for the petitioner would submit that it is purely love affairs and it is a case of elopement and the victim girl was also aged about 17 years at the time of the alleged occurrence and the petitioner is in custody, ever since from the date of arrest namely 30/11/2021.

6.For the purpose of ascertaining the age of the victim girl, the entire