No Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS BA1 No. 2296 of 2025 Hon ’ble Alok Mah r a, J. Mr. G.D. Joshi, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. Rakesh Joshi, learned A.G.A. for the State. 3. The applicant – Narendra Chandra @ Naresh Chandra, who is in judicial custody in connection with FIR/ Case Crime No. 0208 of 2025, under Section 3/ 4 of POCSO Act and Section 64, 351(2) and 351(3) of BNS, registered at Police Station Haldwani, District Nainital, has sought his release on bail. 4. As per the FIR, the incident is of 27.06.2025 while the FIR was lodged on 01.07.2025. 5. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that the applicant has falsely been implicated. It is a case of love affair between the applicant and the victim. Learned counsel has relied upon the statement given by the victim in her examination-in-chief wherein she has admitted that she knew the applicant for last more than one year and they used to talk on telephone each day and a cell-phone was also provided to her by the applicant and the applicant used to make recharge on her cell- phone. It is further submitted that as such the statements of the victim has been recorded and there is no chance of tampering with the evidences or influencing the witnesses and that the applicant is languishing in jail since 02.07.2025. 6. Learned State Counsel, on the other hand, has vehemently opposed the bail application. 7. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the record. 8. Considering the submission of learned counsel for the parties and also considering the fact that as such the statements of the victim has been recorded and there is no chance of tampering with the evidences or influencing the witnesses and that the applicant is languishing in jail since 02.07.2025, without expressing any opinion as to the final merits of the case, this Court is of the view that the applicant deserves bail at this stage. 9. The bail application is allowed. 10. Let the applicant be released on bail, on executing personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties, each of like amount, to the satisfaction of Court concerned. ( Alok Mah r a J.) 14.05.2026 Ujjwal