CRMPM No.403/2009 01.06.2009 Present: M/s H.K. Bhardwaj & Y. Paul, counsel for the petitioner. Mr. Ramesh Thakur, Assistant Advocate General, for the respondent-State. Heard and gone through the record. Four persons have been booked for offence of gang rape, punishable under Section 376(g) of the Indian Penal Code. Two of them are juveniles and, therefore, they have been released on bail. Third one allegedly did not participate in the actual act of sex. Fourth one is the present petitioner. His date of birth is 12th January, 1990. The offence was committed in September, 2008. That means he was 18 years and 8 months at the time of the commission of the alleged crime. Record shows that two girls, one aged about 18 years and another aged about 16 years, were gang-raped by the present petitioner and one Gursevak @ Sethi, a juvenile offender. Since the alleged offence is of very serious nature and the police have collected enough material, indicative of the involvement of the present petitioner in the commission of the crime, I do not think this to be a fit case for exercise of discretion in the matter of grant of bail in favour of the alleged offender. Hence, the petition is dismissed. June 1, 2009(sd) (Surjit Singh), J.