Srinagar, June 28 -- The court of Principal Sessions Judge Anantnag on Friday rejected the bail application of a young man alleged of raping a 70 year old tourist from Maharashtra in April this year.

Tahir Khurshid Raina, the Principal Sessions Judge rejected the bail application of the accused Zubair Ahmad Bhat son of Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat a resident of Ganeshbal Pahalgam Anantnag.

An FIR No. 21/2025 u/sections 64,331-(4) of BNS had been registered with Police Station Pahalgam immediately after the alleged incident.

Judge Tahir Khurshid, said "the appreciation of the material on record which includes the complaint, the statements of the witnesses viz-a-viz of the prosecutrix (who happened to be the star witness in the case), the medical ...