Parmanand Puri vs State of Uttarakhand

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2024 Supreme(UK) 491

RAVINDRA MAITHANI
Parmanand Puri – Appellant
Versus
State of Uttarakhand – Respondent

Advocates:
Advocate Appeared:
For the Appellant :Mr. S.K. Shandilya, Advocate
For the Respondent: Ms. Manisha Rana Singh, A.G.A.

JUDGMENT :

Hon’ble Ravindra Maithani, J. (Oral)

Applicant Parmanand Puri is in judicial custody in FIR/Case Crime No. 113 of 2022, under Sections 376, 354, 323, 506 IPC, and Section 7/8 of the Protection of Children From Sexual Offences Act, 2012, Police Station Dalanwala, District Dehradun. He has sought his release on bail.

2. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record.

3. According to the FIR, the victim was a young girl, when the applicant would visit her. Subsequently, the applicant established physical relations with her on multiple occasions. The victim was still a child, but she could not reveal it to her family members. Thereafter, the applicant got the victim married to a person, who was idiot. The applicant alongwith one Rakesh Kumar Gupta wanted to grab the property of the victim; they sold her shop also; bank loan was taken; Rakesh Kumar Gupta and the bank manager also sexually exploited the victim. The victim has stated during trial that the applicant was trying to molest the young daughter of the victim also in the year 2021.

4. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit it is a false case. The victim starts the story from the year 1999. She is a gro

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