ORDER

This first application under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure has been filed for grant of anticipatory bail.

The applicant is apprehending his arrest in Crime No.307/2022 registered at Police Station Obedullaganj, District Raisen, for the offence punishable under Sections 376, 376(2)(N), 376(2)(H) and 506 of the Indian Penal Code.

Learned counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant and prosecutrix have spent time in live-in relation and in this regard, a written agreement (Annexure-D/1) was also executed between them for living like husband and wife. He submits that subsequently by blackmailing the applicant, prosecutrix started extracting money from him. He submits that later on, the applicant came to know about the fact that the proseuctrix is already married and her husband along with an Advocate are trying to create pressure upon him by giving threat. He submits that after asking about her husband by the applicant, the prosecutrix disclosed the fact that he was her ex-husband who used to behave with her badly and therefore, she left him. He submits that thereafter the relation between the applicant and prosecutrix became unpleasant and prosecutrix star