No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS BA1 No. 1497 of 2025 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Mr. Lalit Sharma, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. Deepak Bisht, learned D.A.G. for the State. 3. The applicant – Bhupendra Singh Chulkotia, who is in judicial custody in connection with FIR/Case Crime No. 79 of 2025, under Sections 64(2)(m), 115 of BNS and under Section 5(j)(ii)/6 of POCSO Act, registered at P.S.- Mukhani, District Nainital, 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 mother of the victim, wherein, she has alleged that her daughter, who was a minor, was studying in MBPG College, Haldwani and living in P.G. at Bhotia Parao, Haldwani; that when the mother of the victim went with her to drop her to Haldwani and stayed with her for a night in Haldwani, sudden pain in the stomach of the victim arose. When the mother of the victim checked the stomach of the victim, she discovered that victim might be pregnant. 6. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that the victim and the applicant were in love since they were studying in class 11th and they went to Haldwani for higher studies, where, on her sweet will, the victim made physical relation with the applicant; that the age of the victim was more than 17 years when the alleged incident is said to have been occurred and the applicant was a year elder than her. The victim, in her statement before the court, stated that they were in love relationship and a girl child is also delivered in June, 2025, that it is further revealed in the affidavit that the victim was born in the year 2005, but, at the time of registration in the school, her age was registered as ‘born in the year 2007’ 7. Learned State Counsel, on the other hand, has vehemently opposed the bail application. 8. Having considered the submissions, under the facts and circumstances of the case, this Court is of the view that it is a case fit for bail and the applicant deserves to be enlarged on bail. 9. Accordingly, the bail application is allowed. 10. Let the applicant be released on bail on executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties each of the like amount, to the satisfaction of the court concerned. (Alok Mahra J.) Vacation Judge 23.01.2026 Ujjwal