Order

17/07/2025 This second application for bail under Section 483 of BNSS has been filed by the petitioner who has been arrested in connection with F.I.R. No.505/2024 registered at Police Station Pratapnagar, District Bhilwara, for offences under Sections 506 and 376(2)(n) of the IPC, Sections 5(l)/6 and 11/12 of the POCSO Act and Section 6 7B of the Information Technology Act .

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Public Prosecutor and learned counsel for the complainant. Perused the material available on record.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case. Learned counsel submitted that an FIR was lodged against the petitioner by the victim ‘D’ alleging inter alia that about four years prior to the date of lodging of the FIR, the petitioner, who was having acquaintance with her, made her eat a Kachori containing intoxicant substance. Upon consuming the Kachori, when she fell unconscious, the petitioner captured her obscene photographs and vidoes and thereupon, by threatening her to circular them on social media platform also subjected her to forcible sexual assault/rape on multiple occasions. Learned couns