The Delhi High Court has granted bail to a 20-year-old man in a rape and POCSO case arising out of "juvenile romance" while noting that the girl herself offered to stand as "surety" for him for his release.

While dealing with the bail plea of the boy in the FIR registered at the insistence of the girl`s mother, Justice Anup Jairam Bhambhani said that prima-facie, there was a consensual physical relationship between the petitioner and the girl who were 18 and 17 years old, respectively, at the relevant time.