Bombay High Court bails the accused in the POCSO Act

Bombay High Court News: Justice Milind N Jadhav’s single bench on April 9, 2025 Under the provisions of IPC and POCSO, a 25 -year -old accused was granted bail in the rape case of a minor girl.

Bombay High Court News : The Bombay High Court granted bail to the accused of raping a 15 -year -old girl. Given the bail, the court has granted bail that the current facts show that the girl knew what was going to happen to her and even after that she came into a relationship with the boy voluntarily for several days. The court also said that his family also knew everything in this case. The court said that the person has been in jail for 3 years and 11 months and in the coming time it is not clear that a decision can come in this case. Therefore, the accused was released from jail on bail.

Minor was living together for several months

Justice Milind N Jadhav (Justice Milind N Jadhav) The singles bench of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and protection of children from sexual offenses on 9 April 2025 (POCSO)) Under the provisions of the minor girl, a 25 -year -old accused was granted bail in the rape case. Also, he was arrested in this case in the year 2021. The court also said that while hearing the case, Justice Jadhav said that the facts of this whole case show that the girl knew with whom she is having a relationship with and the victim understands all those works. Also, she was living with that accused for several months.

Case registered under POCSO

When this incident happened, the girl was 14 years old and the boy was about 21 years old. At the same time, under the Poxo Act, a girl below 18 years of age is not agreed, but in view of the special situation, the judge decided to grant bail using his discretion. At present, the accused will not be in judicial custody but the trial will continue on him. Please tell that this case is of the year 2019 when the girl went with the accused and the minor did not even inform her parents. At the same time, the victim’s father had written a complaint about the disappearance of DN Nagar Police Station.

High court gave bail after 3 years

The complainant said that his girl has been missing since November 19, 2019 and if the reports are to be believed, the girl was staying there and staying there. During this time the girl became pregnant and the accused refused to marry. Meanwhile, the victim gave this information to her father. Then the girl’s father registered a case of rape against the accused. A case was registered under the Poxo Act and then the accused was arrested in the year 2020 at the time of Korona. Since then, the accused was in jail and now the High Court released him from jail on bail.

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