JUDGMENT :

S.K. Sahoo, J.

The petitioner Rajesh Mund @ Bulu is an accused in Kegaon P.S. Case 116 of 2015 which corresponds to C.T. Case No. 353 of 2015 pending in the Court of Special Judge, Kalahandi, Bhawanipatna in which charge sheet has been submitted under sections 366-A, 372 and 373 of the Indian Penal Code read with sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 (hereafter ‘1956 Act’) and section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 (hereafter ‘POCSO Act’). The bail application of the petitioner has been rejected by the learned Special judge, Kalahandi, Bhawanipatna vide order dated 29.09.2015.

2. The prosecution case, as per the First Information Report lodged by one Chema Majhi of village Bagdori before the Inspector-in-Charge of Kegaon Police Station on 15.08.2015 is that on 14.08.2015 at about 10 a.m., three unknown girls came with two unknown persons in two motor cycles to the house of co-accused Dulamani Bihari of village Bagdori and thereafter they took those girls towards the hilly area and engaged those girls in prostitution. It is further stated that previously some unsocial persons also brought minor girls and engaged the