IN THE HIGH COURT OF PUNJAB AND HARYANA AT CHANDIGARH Criminal Misc. No. M-8967 of 2009 (O&M) Date of decision: 6.7.2009 Mewa Singh .. Petitioner v. State of Haryana .. Respondent CORAM: HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJESH BINDAL Present: Mr. Salil Bali, Advocate for the petitioner. Ms. Ritu Punj, Deputy Advocate General, Haryana. .. Rajesh Bindal J. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case. Though the complainant stated that she was raped by the petitioner, but the medical evidence is not supporting her stand. There is a delay of 3 days in lodging the FIR. Statements of the prosecutrix as well as her mother have already been recorded. There is no chance of tampering with the witnesses, as only formal witnesses remain to be examined. The petitioner is in custody since 6.11.2008. Learned counsel for the State submits that it is a case where the FIR was registered on the statement of the prosecutrix. The delay in lodging the FIR in such cases is not fatal. Even sole statement of the prosecutrix may be enough to convict the petitioner. After hearing learned counsel for the parties and considering the aforesaid material, as has been referred to above, and without recording any definite finding on the stand taken by the respective parties, it is directed that pending trial the petitioner shall be released on bail on furnishing of bail bonds to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate/Duty Magistrate, Bhiwani. The petition is disposed of. (Rajesh Bindal) Judge 6.7.2009 mk