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Bail petitioner-Ravi Kumar, who is behind bars since

1.8.2021, has approached this court in the instant proceedings filed under S.439 CrPC, for grant of regular bail in FIR No. 59, dated 21.7.2021, registered at Police Station Parwanoo, District Solan, under S. 354D IPC and S.4 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act.

2. Status report filed in terms of order dated 4.8.2021, reveals that the victim-prosecutrix (name withheld) lodged a complaint at Police Station Parwanoo, on 21.7.2021, alleging therein that bail petitioner resides at a distance of 1 km from her house and he has been stalking her for so many days. She alleged that bail petitioner keeps on pressurizing her for marriage, as a consequence of which she is under mental stress. She alleged that though she repeatedly conveyed to the bail petitioner that she does not want to marry her but yet the bail petitioner stalks her. She alleged that on 19.7.2201, at 3.30 pm, while she was grazing her cattle at a distance of 200 metre from her house, bail petitioner contacted her and asked her to solemnize marriage with him but she refused. In the aforesaid background, FIR detailed herein above, came to be lodged