JUDGEMENT

Bail App. No. 230/2025:

01. Through the medium of the instant application, the applicant seeks grant of bail in a case arising out of FIR No. 17/2022 registered under Sections 376 and 506 IPC, at Police Station Women Wing Kupwar, on 13.06.2022, alleging that the applicant has been falsely implicated due to long-standing family disputes arising out of the marriage of the applicant with the mother of the prosecutrix. It is contended that the prosecutrix herself had approached the son of the applicant for filing a petition under Section 482 Cr PC before this Court seeking quashment of the FIR, which according to learned counsel materially affects the credibility of the prosecution case.

02. The respondents, vehemently, opposes the application and submit that the allegations levelled against the applicant are grave and heinous in nature involving commission of offence punishable under Section 376 IPC; that the prosecutrix has fully supported the prosecution case and her statement recorded under Section 164 Cr PC. clearly corroborates the allegations levelled in the FIR. It is further submitted that the medical evidence collected during investigation also supports the prosecut