IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 09.02.2026 TALIM .....PETITIONER Vs.

STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER .....RESPONDENTS CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE NEERJA K. KALSON Present: Mr. Anas Ahmed, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Atul Gaur, AAG, Haryana.

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NEERJA K. KALSON , J.

The present petition has been filed under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.111 dated 28.07.2021, under Sections 376, 365 and 506 of IPC, 1860 and Section 4 of POCSO Act, 2012 (Section 376-D IPC was added later on), registered at Police Station Bichhore, District Nuh.

2. The learned trial Court, after hearing rival contentions of learned counsel for the petitioner-accused, learned State counsel and after going through the case file carefully, observed that the present petitioner has been summoned by the trial Court as an additional accused under Section 319 Cr.P.C. The complainant/father of the victim, in his complaint given to the police, levelled specific allegations against the petitioner that he had committed rape upon his minor daughter and had also threatened to kill her and her parents if