THE HONOURABLE SRI JUSTICE J. SREENIVAS RAO CRIMINAL PETITION No.9515 of 2025

ORDER:

This Criminal Petition is filed under Sections 480 and 483 of Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhitha, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) seeking bail to the petitioner/accused in Crime No.438 of 2025 on the file of the P.S. Banjara Hills, Hyderabad, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 87, 64(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhitha, 2023 (for short ‘BNS’) and section 3 r/w. 4 Protection of Child from Sexual Offences ( for short ‘POCSO’)

Act, 2012.

2. The case of the prosecution in brief is that, victim girl used to reside in the house of her aunt at Dhoodh Khana Basthi, Road No.7 Banjara Hills and the accused lived in a nearby colony. The accused was known to the aunt of victim girl. In the month of March the victim girl gave her broken phone to her male friend for repair, on seeing this, the accused to scare her, threatened to tell her aunt about it and took her to Vengalrao Park and in the restroom the accused had forcefully sexual intercourse with her. Again on 19.05.2025, the accused on the pretext of taking daughter of aunt of victim girl from her friend's house took the victim girl to his house a