Crl.M. No. M-11388 of 2009 (O&M) -1- IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB & HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Crl.M. No. M-11388 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision : 21.5.2009. ... Sahib Kumar ................ Petitioner vs. State of Punjab .................Respondent Coram: Hon'ble Mr. Justice K.C. Puri Present: Sh. J.S. Lalli, Advocate for the petitioner. Sh. A.P.S. Mann, Senior Deputy Advocate General, Punjab ... K.C. Puri, J. (Oral) This is a petition for grant of bail to Sahib Kumar – petitioner in FIR No. 241 dated 11.9.2008 under Sections 363, 366, 376, 120-B IPC, registered at Police Station Focal Point, Ludhiana. As per allegation made in the complaint by father of the prosecutrix, prosecutrix was a student of class 7th and she had been taken away by Ram Raksha s/o Shiv Pujan, brother of the petitioner. Statement of prosecutrix has been recorded during the course of investigation, in which she has stated that petitioner has taken her on the scooter and thereafter she went to Uttar Pradesh alongwith Ram Raksha and she has further stated that she was forced to enter Crl.M. No. M-11388 of 2009 (O&M) -2- into marriage with Ram Raksha, before Marriage Officer, Mirzapur. Learned State counsel has stated that as per opinion of the doctor, age of the prosecutrix is 17 to 19 years. The allegations of alleged rape are against Ram Raksha. Marriage certificate has also been placed on the file as Annexure P-1, which relates to Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. So, without commenting on the merits of the case, bail to the satisfaction of the trial Court. ( K.C. Puri ) 21.5.2009. Judge chugh