2025:UHC:5565 SL. No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGE’S ORDERS BA1 No. 688 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Mr. Saurabh Kumar Pandey, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. Siddhartha Bisht, learned AGA for the State. 3. Present applicant–Neeraj S/o Shri Gulab Singh is seeking regular bail in relation to first information report dated 07.09.2024 bearing FIR No.0141 of 2024, Police Station Pant Nagar, District Udham Singh Nagar, wherein the present applicant has been implicated for the offences punishable under Sections 3/4 of the POCSO read with Section 64 of the BNS, 2023. 4. It is contended by learned counsel for the applicant that the applicant was arrested in this offence on 08.09.2024 and the charge- sheet has been filed on 04.11.2024, and as such, there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant. Apart from this, he submits that there is a delay of 02 years in lodging the FIR and at the time of incident, the applicant was 20 years’ old, which is a tender age though the victim was 16 years’ old and both of them were friends and whatever be the relations in between both of them, the same was consensual. 5. Learned counsel for the applicant further submits that the applicant has no previous criminal history. 6. On the other side, learned State counsel has not disputed this fact that the charge- sheet has already been filed and the applicant is languishing in jail since 08.09.2024 and since the investigation has already been completed and as such, at this juncture, 2025:UHC:5565 there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant. 7. After hearing the arguments as advanced by learned counsel for the parties and further taking into consideration that since the charge-sheet has already been filed and as such there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant, therefore, this Court is of the view that the applicant deserves for bail. 8. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case, the present bail application is allowed. 9. Let the applicant, namely, Neeraj, be released on bail, on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties, each in the like amount, to the satisfaction of the court concerned. (Rakesh Thapliyal, J.) 01.07.2025 R.Bisht 2025:UHC:5565