Srinagar, June 7 -- The High Court of J&K and Ladakh has cancelled the bail granted to a rape accused man from Sumbal, Bandipora, holding that the trial court had relied on irrelevant considerations and undertaken an impermissible assessment of evidence while granting relief.

Justice Sanjay Dhar, while allowing a petition filed by the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir through Police Station Sumbal, set aside an order dated June 27, 2024, by the Additional Sessions Judge, Bandipora, which had granted bail to accused Parvaiz Ahmed Ganie in connection with FIR No. 155/2022 registered under Sections 341, 376 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code.

According to the prosecution, the incident occurred on December 27, 2022, when the prosecutrix/fe...