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The metropolis constabulary connected Monday (May 18, 2026) urged the Delhi High Court to cancel the bail granted to a 57-year-old unit subordinate accused of raping a three-year-old miss wrong a backstage schoolhouse successful westbound Delhi's Janakpuri earlier this month.
Justice Saurabh Banerjee issued announcement to the accused, Lalit Kumar, connected the police's plea challenging the proceedings tribunal bid which granted bail to him connected May 7 successful the lawsuit nether the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act.
Terming it a "gross case", Additional Solicitor General (ASG) S.V. Raju said the accused faces a minimum punishment of 20 years imprisonment for the offence, but the proceedings tribunal granted him alleviation wrong a fewer days of his arrest, contempt the subsister identifying him arsenic the perpetrator.
"The 3-year aged kid has identified him. Within 7 days helium was granted bail. This is gross case. This really is simply a lawsuit of cancellation astatine the signifier of notice," ASG Raju said.
The counsel for the complainant said they person besides filed a petition against the bail order, which was apt to travel up for proceeding connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026). The tribunal listed the lawsuit for proceeding connected May 29 and sought the basal of the accused.
The incidental came to airy connected May 1 erstwhile the survivor's parent filed a ailment astatine Janakpuri constabulary station, alleging that her girl was sexually assaulted during schoolhouse hours by the accused.
According to the complaint, the kid had gone to the schoolhouse connected April 30, the 2nd time aft her admission. After returning home, she complained of pain. When questioned by her mother, the miss said that she was taken to an isolated country successful the school, wherever the antheral allegedly assaulted her.
Based connected the ailment by the child's mother, constabulary registered a lawsuit nether Section 64(1) (punishment for rape) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and conception 6 (Punishment for aggravated penetrative intersexual assault) of the POCSO Act.
Section 6 mandates a minimum of 20 years of rigorous imprisonment, which tin beryllium extended to beingness imprisonment, oregon decease punishment for the offence.
Police said the kid identified the accused, pursuing which the schoolhouse caretaker was arrested connected May 1. He was aboriginal produced earlier a tribunal and sent to judicial custody.
However, helium was granted bail by a tribunal successful Dwaraka connected May 7 contempt beardown absorption from the prosecution. A pistillate teacher was besides arrested by the police successful transportation with the matter.
