CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER

2 20-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, informant and the State .

2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 64 , 81 and 305 of BNS and 4 of POCSO .

3 . The prosecution case , in brief, is that the informant was in longstanding relationship with the petitioner, who allegedly promised to marry her. Based on the said promise , daughter of the informant entered into physical relationship with the petitioner. Relationship lasted for several years and thereafter, petitioner and other accused persons started demanding dowry and later on this petitioner refused to marry informant.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that prosecution case set out in the F.I.R. is false and concocted. The informant was major and was conscious of all consequences of intimate relationship which continued for several months. The act of repeated intimacy and sexual relationship was totally consensual in nature and was not established under any false promise , threat or coercion . He further submits that it is a case of long voluntary love affair between two consenting adults