IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Date of Decision: 01.04.2026 RAHUL ......Petitioner Versus STATE OF HARYANA AND ANOTHER .....Respondents CORAM: HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE KIRTI SINGH Present: Mr. C.S. Saini, Advocate for Mr. Sandeep Kumar Yadav, Advocate for the petitioner.

Mr. Anmol Malik, DAG, Haryana.

None for the complainant.

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KIRTI SINGH, J. (ORAL)

1. Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 438 of Cr.P.C., is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.105 dated 01.07.2025, under Sections 4/17 of The Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, 2012 (for short ‘POCSO Act’) and Section 351 (3) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’), registered at Police Station City Mahendergarh, District Mahendergarh.

2. The translated version of the FIR is reproduced hereunder:

“Statement of xxxx wife of Vishnu resident of Mohalla, Mahendergarh, age 16 ½ years, education 11th Pass, phone no.94660-xxxxx, 80535xxxxx. Stated that I am resident of above said address and student 12th Class in Government Girls school, Mahendergarh. We are four sisters, father is a driver and mother is housewife. In the

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