1 2025:CGHC:10897 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 1285 of 2025 1 - Narayan Das @ Aryan Pant S/o Suresh Kumar Pant Aged About 20 Years R/o Bakawand Awaspara Thana Bakawand Distt.- Bastar C.G. ... Applicant(s) versus 1 - State Of Chhattisgarh Through P.S. Bakawand Distt.- Bastar C.G. ... Respondent(s) For Applicant(s) : Shri Vikas A. Shrivastava, Advocate For Respondent/State : Shri Vivek Sharma, PL (Hon’ble Shri Justice Arvind Kumar Verma) Order on Board 05/03/2025 The applicant has filed this bail application under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagrrik Suraksha Sanhita for grant of regular bail as he is in custody in connection with Crime No. 37/2024 registered at police station Bakawand, District Bastar (CG) for the offence punishable under Section 376(2)(n) of IPC and Section 6 of the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012. 2. Prosecution case in brief is that on 14.06.2024, report was lodged by the prosecutrix alleging that she came in contact with the applicant in instagram and thereafter there was friendship between SUGUNA DUBEY Digitally signed by SUGUNA DUBEY Date: 2025.03.07 11:54:49 +0530 2 them and on 26.05.2024, the applicant came to her house and took her to Farsigaon where he developed physical relation with her on the pretext of marriage and he continued the relation on several occasions. On the basis of the said report, the applicant was arrested. 4. Counsel for the applicant submits that the applicant has been falsely implicated in the case. He submits that the prosecutrix was having love affair and she developed physical relation with him on her own and when the applicant refused to marry her, she lodge a report. He submits that the applicant is in jail since 27.07.2024, the charge sheet has been filed and the trial is likely to take some time, he is ready and willing to comply with any of the conditions which may be imposed upon him and thus, it is submitted that the application be allowed and the applicant be released on bail. 5. Learned counsel for the respondent/State, on the other hand, has opposed the bail application. 6. Victim and her mother appeared through the concerned DLSA and they have raised objection. 7. Heard counsel for the parties and perused the record. 8. On due consideration of the rival submissions and the fact that there was love affair between the applicant and the prosecutrix and the applicant is in jail since 27.07.2024, the charge sheet has been filed and the final disposal of the trial is likely to take sufficiently long time, the present application deserves to be allowed. Accordingly, his bail application is allowed. 9. It is directed that in the event of applicant executing a personal bond for a sum of Rs. 10,000/- with one surety to the satisfaction of the 3 concerned trial court, he shall be released on bail on the following conditions: (i) he shall not directly or indirectly make any inducement,threat or promise to any person acquainted with the facts of the case so as to dissuade him from disclosing such fact to the Court, (ii) he shall not act in any manner which will be prejudicial to fair and expeditious trial, and (iii) he shall appear before the trial Court on each and every date given to him by the said Court till disposal of the trial, (iv) he shall not involve himself in any offence of similar nature in future. Sd/- (Arvind Kumar Verma) Judge