JUDGMENT : (PER: URMILA JOSHI-PHALKE, J.)

1. Present applicants seek exception to challenge, at the initial stage, the First Information Report (for short “the FIR”) in connection with Crime No.196/2025 registered with Telhara Police Station, District Akola, on 02.07.2025, for the offence punishable under Section 64(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, under Sections 4(1) and 8 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (for short ‘the POCSO Act’) and under Sections 9, 10, 11 of Prohibition of Child Marriage Act, 2006.

2. Brief fact which are necessary for the disposal of the application are as under:

Police Head Constable Rahul Tayade attached to Telhara Police Station lodged report at Police Station, Telhara on 01.07.2025 informing that on 24.06.2025, he received an information that, the victim had delivered a baby boy at Fatima Nursing Home, Akola on 10.05.2025. The age of the victim at the time of marriage was 17 years. Her marriage was solemnized with accused Mirza Aslam Beigh. As per his allegations, she was subjected for the forceful sexual assault when she was minor. On the basis of the said report, Police have registered the crime against the present applicant