JUDGMENT :

RUPINDERJIT CHAHAL, J.

1. Prayer in the present petition filed under Section 482 of the BNSS, 2023 is for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner in case FIR No.12 dated 09.02.2026 registered under Sections 67-B of IT Act and Section 15 of POCSO Act, at Police Station Cyber Crime, District Ludhiana City.

2. Brief facts of the present case are that the petitioner was found having contents of child pornography in his mobile phone. Hence, the present FIR.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. He argued that the alleged raid was conducted on 24.12.2024 but the FIR in question was registered on 09.02.2026 i.e. after an unexplained delay of more than 01 year, casting serious doubt on the prosecution story. He further argued that even as per prosecution, when the police party checked the mobile phone of the petitioner on 24.12.2024, no material constituting a cognizable offence was found and despite that, the mobile phones were taken into possession, which again creates doubt on the veracity of the prosecution version. Moreover, the petitioner has clean antecedents as he is not involved in any o