CHANDRABHAN Vs. STATE

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This criminal appeal is directed against the order dated 03.12.2019 passed by the learned Special Judge, POCSO Act 2012 and Commission for Protection of Child Right Act, 2005, No. 1 Sriganganagar, (for short 'the trial court' hereinafter), whereby the court has dismissed the application under section 12 of the Act of 2015, with a prayer for releasing the juvenile on bail.

(2.) Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the allegations of abducting and sexually assaulting the prosecutrix levelled against the petitioner are false. It is argued that the prosecutrix eloped with the appellant as per her own free will and lived with him for quite long time at various places. It is further submitted that no other case has ever been filed against the petitioner.

(3.) Section 12(1) of the Act of 2015 reads as under: