This petition is filed by the sole accused under Section

439 of Cr.P.C., seeking bail in Crime No.181/2021 of

Hirehadagali police station registered for the offences

punishable under Sections 366, 376(N) and 506 of IPC.

2.

The case of the prosecution is that, the father of

the victim-lady has filed complaint stating that, he is having

two children including the victim-lady. It is further stated

that, the victim-lady is married to one Devaraj and she is

having a male child. The complainant had filed missing

complaint of his daughter victim-lady on 24.11.2021 before

the Hirehadagali police station and on 08.12.2021, the police

secured his daughter victim-lady and the petitioner, and at

that time, the wife of the complainant enquired her daughter

wherein she has told that, she came in acquaintance with the

petitioner and once when she was quarreling with her

husband,

accused

has

threatened

her

husband

and

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subsequently asked the victim-lady to come out with him

and he will marry her, and on 20.11.2021 at about 2.20

a.m., when her child was crying she came out, at that time

he

took

her

to

Hadagali

village

and

thereafter

to

Chikkamagalur in Bus and kept her in a Narigudda estate

wh