ORDER

Date : 01.09.2023 Heard Mr. A. Ahmed, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. R. R.

Kaushik, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

This bail application has been preferred under Section 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973, praying for bail of petitioner, namely, Md. Amirul Islam, who is a young boy of 20 years of age and who is detained behind the bar since last 04.07.2023, in connection with Abhayapuri P. S. Case No. 340/2023 under Section 354 D of the Indian Penal Code read with Section 18 of the POCSO Act, 2012, added Section 67 B of the Information Technology Act, 2000 and Section 12 of POCSO Act, 2012.

The accusation in this case is that one Mohinur Islam, on 31.07.2023, lodged an FIR before the Officer-in-Charge of Abhayapuri Police Station, inter-alia, alleging that the present petitioner proposed to marry his younger sister (victim girl) and took her photograph and later on distorted her photographs and posted the same on social media.

It is also alleged in the FIR due to the said act of the petitioner, the sister of the first informant got mentally hurt and she attempted to commit suicide on 29.07.2023.

However, she was recovered in a critical