CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER

4 21-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner; learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State as well as learned counsel for the informant.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Muffasil PS Case No.333 of 2025 dated 29.05.2025, instituted for the offence punishable under Sections 126 (2), 115(2), 65(1), 70(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 , and Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act .

3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that on the alleged date of occurrence at about 1.00 in the night, the minor daughter of the informant was coming home after attending marriage ceremony of the daughter of Jogindar Paswan. On the way, the petitioner and another co-accused caught her and forcibly established physical relation with her by gagging her mouth and also threatened her to kill. When the informant visited the house of the accused persons to inform about the incident, accused persons had abused and tried to assault him.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that from the FIR itself it would appear that there was marriage ceremony going on in the house of t