PHULMAI TAMANG @ NEHA vs STATE OF NCT OF DELHI

IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI Date of Decision: 26.05.2025 + BAIL APPLN. 1395/2025 & CRL.M.A. 10870/2025 PHULMAI TAMANG @ NEHA .....Petitioner Through: Mr. Deepak Kumar Singh, Advocate versus STATE OF NCT OF DELHI .....Respondent Through: Ms. Manjeet Arya, APP for State with Inspector Sunil Dhaka and Inspector Kapil Khokar and SI Virender, PS Kamla Market CORAM: JUSTICE GIRISH KATHPALIA JUDGMENT (ORAL) 1. The accused/applicant seeks bail in case FIR No. 186/17 of PS Kamla Market for offence under Section 366A/368/342/370/370A/ 373/376/109/120B/34 IPC, Section 3/5/7 ITP Act, Section 17 of POCSO Act and Section 23 JJ Act. Broadly speaking, the allegation against the accused/applicant is that the complainant de facto, a resident of Nepal, who succeeded in escaping the illegal custody of a kotha on G.B. Road got an FIR lodged according to which, she was induced by one Raj Kumar, a resident of Nepal to accompany him to Delhi for working as a domestic help but in Delhi he sold her to one Sita, who in turn sold her to the accused/applicant running a kotha. The accused/applicant forcibly confined her to the kotha and in order to compel her into prostitution, beat her up and BAIL