Advocates:
['PANCHANAN PANIGRAHI', '', 'H K DASH', 'G S MUDULI', 'G S NAYAK', 'M/S K K BHUYAN', 'R C PATTNAIK', 'S T MISHRA']

CORAM: HON’BLE SHRI JUSTICE S. K. PANIGRAHI

BLAPL No.6897 of 2020

Harish Kumar Pani @ Mantu

… Petitioner

Vrs.

State of Odisha

… Opp. Party

03. 26.02.2021

Heard, learned counsel for the petitioner,

learned counsel for the Informant and the learned

counsel for the State.

Petitioner being in custody in connection with

Paralakhemundi

PS

Case

No.136

of

2020

corresponding to GR Case No.21 of 2020, pending in

the court of the learned Additional Sessions Judge,-

cum-Special Judge, Gajapati, Paralakhemundi, has

filed this petition under Section 439 of the CrPC for

his release on bail. The offence alleged against him is

punishable under Sections 376(2)(n)/376(3), 323,

506/34 of the IPC and Section 4 of the POCSO Act.

The allegation of the prosecution is that

informant-Anisha Lima aged about 15 years lodged

an FIR alleging therein that she had love affairs with

the present-petitioner Harish Kumar Pani alias

Mantu of her village since last three months. Harish

Kumar Pani was her distant relative brother.

Petitioner was regularly contacting her and lured to

keep physical relation with her. Since peti