CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD)

5 06-01-2026 I.A. No. 01 of 2025 Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. This application has been filed seeking suspension of sentence and release of the appellant on bail during pendency of the appeal.

3. The appellant has been convicted vide judgment dated 29.08.2024 and sentenced vide order dated 05.09.2024 by learned Additional Sessions Judge-VI-cum- Special Judge, POCSO, Banka, in Special POCSO Case No. 2693/2020 arising out of Bandhua Kurawa P.S. Case No. 44/2020 for the offences punishable under Sections 363 and 376(1) of the Indian Penal Code (in short ‘IPC’) and Section 4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act (in short ‘POCSO Act’). The appellant has been ordered to suffer rigorous imprisonment for seven years with a fine of Rs. 5,000/- for the offence under Section 363 of IPC and in default of payment of fine, he shall further undergo rigorous imprisonment for a period of three months. He has been further sentenced to undergo rigorous imprison