No. Date Office Notes, reports, orders or proceedings or directions and Registrar’s order with Signatures COURT’S OR JUDGES’S ORDERS BA1 No. 1268 of 2025 Hon’ble Alok Mahra, J. Mr. Lalit Sharma, learned counsel for the applicant. 2. Mr. B.N. Molakhi, learned Deputy Advocate General alongwith Mr. Akshay Latwal, learned A.G.A. for the State. 3. Mr. Gaurav Singh, learned counsel for the complainant. 4. The applicant – Vishant Chaudhary, who is in judicial custody in connection with Case Crime/FIR No. 146 of 2025, under Section 376 of IPC and 3(a) and (4) of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, registered at P.S.- Kankhal, District Haridwar, has sought his release on bail. 5. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the records. 6. In this case, an FIR was lodged by mother of the victim on 03.06.2025, wherein, it was alleged that the applicant, on the pretext of taking the victim to his house at Kankhal, Haridwar, took her to a hotel, where he made physical relation with her. This incident, as per the FIR, took place two and a half years ago. Thereafter, after a lapse of one year, marriage of the victim was arranged with some other person, but, the accused showed the obscene video of the victim due to which proposal of the marriage could not be finalized. On the basis of the FIR, after investigation, applicant was arrested on 04.06.2025 and he is in custody since then. 7. Learned counsel for the applicant would submit that the applicant was pursuing course of Bachelor of Physiotherapy while the victim is also pursuing her studies. Both are major. Learned counsel for the applicant has annexed several instagram’s chats, which reveals that applicant and victim were friends and were having cordial relationship with each other. 8. Per contra, learned State Counsel vehemently opposed the bail application. State have filed a counter-affidavit, which is taken on record. 9. Having considered the submissions of learned counsel for the parties and also considering the fact that applicant and victim were friends and were having cordial relationship with each other, this Court is of the view that it is a case fit for bail and the applicant deserves to be enlarged on bail. 10. Accordingly, the present bail application is allowed. 11. Let the applicant be released on bail on his executing a personal bond and furnishing two reliable sureties each of the like amount, to the satisfaction of the court concerned. (Alok Mahra J.) 14.10.2025 Ujjwal