JUDGMENT (ORAL)

1. Petitioner has approached this Court seeking bail in FIR No.858/2021, dated 04.10.2021, registered at Police Station Jahangir Puri initially for offences under Sections 363 IPC which was later on converted to offences under Sections 363/366/376 IPC and Section 6 of the POCSO Act.

2. The facts, in brief, leading to the present Petition, are that 04.10.2021 a complaint was registered by the mother of the Prosecutrix stating that her daughter, the Prosecutrix herein, aged about 17 years, left her house on 30.09.2021 at about 2:30 PM and since then she has not come back and the Complainant suspects that her daughter might have been lured by some unknown person. On the said complaint the present FIR was registered and the investigation was carried out. During investigation it was revealed that earlier also the Prosecutrix went missing from her home twice and in this regard FIR No. 219/2021 and FIR No. 444/2021 both under section 363 IPC were registered but later on the Prosecutrix returned back home. The investigation further revealed that the Prosecutrix was living with the Petitioner herein somewhere in Narela and on 18.12.2021 the Prosecutrix was found.

3. It is stat