Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or No Date COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures BA1 No. 127 of 2026 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J.

Mr. P.S. Dhami, learned counsel for the applicant.

2. Mr. Vipul Painuly, learned A.G.A. for the State.

3. The applicant – Himanshu Kumar, who is in judicial custody in connection with FIR/Case Crime No. 137 of 2025, under Sections 64, 115(2), 137(2), 351(3) and 352 of BNS and Section 3/4 of POCSO, registered at P.S.- Kotwali Pithoragarh, District Pithoragarh, has sought his release on bail.

4. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the records.

5. In this case, an FIR was lodged by the father of the victim, who was 17 years, 9 months of age. In the FIR, it is alleged that the applicant enticed her daughter to come to Rawal Village and took her in a vehicle to a house where the applicant locked the victim in a room and then forcibly made physical relations with her. The applicant was arrested on 04.12.2025. 6. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that bare perusal of the FIR reveals that applicant and victim were in love relationship. This fact is corroborated Section 180 and 183 of BNSS, wherei