The Allahabad High Court has granted bail to an accused in a rape case on the condition that he would marry the victim within three months of release. The direction comes reportedly considering there are no criminal cases registered against the accused in the past.
As per the order passed by the Allahabad High Court, the bench has made the marriage one of the conditions for bail. Hearing the matter, Justice Krishan Pahal of the High Court noted the Uttar Pradesh government couldn’t present any evidence that would warrant denial of bail to the accused, Bar and Bench reported.
The accused, Naresh Meena alias Narsaram Meena, has allegedly lured the 26-year-old victim with a false promise of getting her job in the Uttar Pradesh police. Meena allegedly took Rs 9 lakh from the victim and raped her. He also allegedly circulated obscene videos of the victim on social media.
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A case was registered by Agra police and they arrested Meena in September last year under charges of section 376 (rape) and section 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code, and section 67 of the IT Act. However, the accused denied the charges and said there was a delay of four months in registering the FIR.
Hearing the matter, the High Court granted bail considering there was no previous history of criminal cases against the accused. The accused informed the Court that he was ready to take care of the victim as “wedded wife”. Passing the order, the bench said, “The applicant shall marry the victim within a period of three months of his release from jail.”
“It is a settled principle of law that the object of bail is to secure the attendance of the accused at the trial. No material particulars or circumstances suggestive of the applicant fleeing from justice or thwarting the course of justice or creating other troubles in the shape of repeating offences or intimidating witnesses and the like have been shown by learned AGA,” the Bar and Bench reported quoting the order.
