IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH (119) CRM-M-69779-2025 (O&M)

Date of Decision:- 24.03.2026 ARUN ……Petitioner Versus STATE OF HARYANA ……Respondent CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK JAIN ****

Present: Dr. Deipa Singh, Advocate for the petitioner.

Ms. Akshita Chauhan, DAG, Haryana.

Mr. Gaurav Verma, Advocate for the complainant.

ALOK JAIN, J. (Oral)

1. The present petition has been filed seeking the grant of regular bail to the petitioner in case FIR No. 725 dated 25.12.2024, under Sections 89, 64(1), and 351(2) of the BNS and Section 6 of the POCSO Act, registered at Police Station Mujessar, Faridabad.

2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a young man of 26 years and has been in custody for the last one year. It is further submitted that all the material witnesses have been examined and have turned hostile. Learned counsel specifically refers to the testimony of the victim, who is around 16 years of age, wherein she has denied that the petitioner is the person who had committed rape upon her.

3. Mr. Gaurav Verma, Advocate appears on behalf of the complainant and filed his power of attorney, which is taken on record.

4. Per contra, learned Sta