2025:UHC:4140 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. 718 of 2025 Hon’ble Rakesh Thapliyal, J. 1. Mr. Nandan Arya, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. V.S. Pal, learned AGA for the State. 3. Present applicant–Ravindra S/o Shri Rudal Mahto is seeking bail in relation to FIR/Case Crime No.728 of 2023, registered on the basis of FIR dated 15.10.2023 at Police Station Bhagwanpur, District Haridwar, wherein the present applicant has been implicated for the offences punishable under Sections 363, 366, 376(3), 376(2)(n) of I.P.C and 3A/4(ii), 5(l)/6 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offence Act. 4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the applicant that the charge-sheet has already been filed and the trial has been commenced and some of the prosecution witnesses have also been examined including the victim. 5. He further submits that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated, and, furthermore, the victim, herself, in her examination in chief, stated that whatever be the relations in between both of them, the same was consensual and the applicant married with her. Apart from this, he submits that the applicant is languishing in jail since 22.10.2023 and the charge-sheet has already been filed, therefore, there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant. 6. On the other side, learned State counsel has not disputed this fact that the applicant is languishing in jail since 2025:UHC:4140 22.10.2023 and 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 the trial has already been commenced and there is no need of custodial interrogation of the present applicant and the present applicant is languishing in jail since 22.10.2023, this Court is of the view that the applicant deserves to be enlarged on bail. 8. Accordingly, without expressing any opinion on the merit of the case, the present bail application is allowed. 9. Let the applicant, namely, Ravindra, 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.) 19.05.2025 R.Bisht 2025:UHC:4140