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IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 24^TH DAY OF MARCH, 2026

BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.G.S. KAMAL

CRIMINAL APPEAL NO.2582 OF 2025 (U/S 14(A) (2))

BETWEEN:

SRI. M. CHANDRA KUMAR, S/O MUNIRAMAIAH,

AGE ABOUT 56 YEARS, R/AT SUGNANA NAGARA

MANDIBLE ROAD VIJAYAPURA TOWN DEVANHALLI TALUK

BENGALURU RURAL DISTRICT.

(ACCUSED NO 1 IS IN JUDICIAL CUSTODY )

…APPELLANT (BY SRI. GIRISH R., ADVOCATE)

Digitally signed by AND:

SUMA B N Location:

HIGH COURT 1. STATE OF KARNATAKA OF KARNATAKA VIJAYPURA POLICE STATION,

REPTD BY THE STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA,

BENGALURU- 560001.

2. SMT CHAITRA C.N.

W/O MANJUNATH,

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AGE ABOUT 30 YEARS, R/A SUGNANA NAGARA,

MANDIBLE ROAD, VIJAYPURA TOWN,

DEVANHALLI TALUK …RESPONDENTS

(BY SRI. VINAY MAHADEVAIAH, HCGP FOR R1;

R2 IS SERVED)

THIS CRL.A. FILED U/S.14(A)(2) OF SC/ST (POA) ACT, 2015 PRAYING TO GRANT BAIL TO THE APPELLANT BY DIRECTING THE 1ST RESPONDENT POLICE TO RELEASE THE APPELLANT ON BAIL ARRESTED IN CRIME NO.0215/2025 FAST TRACK COURT-2, BENGALURU RURAL DISTRICT BENGALURU FOR THE OFFENCES PUNISHABLE UNDER SECTION SECTION- 64, 65(2), 61(2) (a) OF BHARATIYA NYAYA SANHITA 2023, UNDER SECTION 4 (2), 5 (l) AND 6 OF THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FROM SEXUAL OFFENCES ACT, 2012 AND UNDER SECTION-3 (2)(v) OF THE SC AND ST (PREVENTION OF

ATROCITIES) AMENDMENT ACT 2015.

THIS APPEAL, COMING ON FOR ADMISSION, THIS DAY,

JUDGMENT WAS DELIVERED THEREIN AS UNDER:

CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE M.G.S. KAMAL

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ORAL JUDGMENT

Accused/appellant in this appeal being aggrieved

by the order dated 29.11.2025 passed in Crl.Misc. No.2233/2025 on the file of Additional District and Sessions Judge FTSC-II, Bengaluru Rural District, Bengaluru, by which his application filed under Section 483 of BNSS for the grant of regular bail for the offences punishable under Sections 64, 65(2), 61(2)(a) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023, Section 4(2), 5(L) and 6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012 and Section 3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Amendment Act, 2015 registered in Cr.No.252/2025 has been rejected.

2. A complaint dated 08.11.2025 came to be filed

by respondent No.2/defacto complainant the mother of the victim before the jurisdictional police alleging that the complainant along with her husband and children were residing as tenants under accused No.1. On 05.11.2025, the victim girl was then studying in the third standard,

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stayed back at home as she had some problem in her eyes. When the complainant/respondent No.2 returned home at 12.00 noon, she found the folded beds were scattered. When she questioned the victim girl, she was told that after complainant had gone to her work, accused/appellant herein being the owner of the house had come to her house and removed the clothes of the victim and had inserted his private parts into the private parts of the victim girl. That again on 07.11.2025, when the complainant went to her work, the victim girl was at home. At about 12.00 noon, the victim girl had called one Kalyana, who was working along with the complainant/respondent No.2. When the complainant went home, the victim girl was playing in front of the house of one Mansor. The complainant took the victim girl to her house and enquired as to why she was outside the house to which the victim girl had informed that accused No.1 had come home when she was playing, the said Mansor had called accused No.1 and left the child with the accused

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and accused No.1 made the victim girl to lay on the cot of the house of Mansor and committed sexual harassment on

the victim girl.

3. That she had first taken the victim girl to

Vijayapura Government Hospital and the doctor on ex

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