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Delhi: The Supreme Court
today dismissed a plea challenging the Delhi High Court order granting
anticipatory bail to a Mumbai-based journalist in a rape case lodged against
him by a 22-year-old woman.
“We find no reason to interfere. The special leave petition is
dismissed,” said a vacation bench of Justices Navin Sinha and Ajay Rastogi
while rejecting the plea filed by the complainant.
The high court had on May 13 granted anticipatory bail to
journalist Varun Hiremath in the case.
The complainant has alleged that she was raped by the accused at
a five-star hotel in Delhi’s Chanakyapuri on February 20.
Varun Hiremath had approached the high court after his
anticipatory bail plea was dismissed by a trial court here on March 12.
On the basis of the woman’s complaint, an FIR
under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 376 (punishment for rape), 342
(punishment for wrongful confinement) and 509 (word, gesture or act intended to
insult the modesty of a woman) was registered at the Chanakyapuri Police
Station in Delhi.
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