Subodh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.2062 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-132 Year-2024 Thana- DARPA District- East Champaran ====================================================== Subodh Kumar Son of Ranjeet Prasad Yadav Resident of Village - Bhatnahiya, P.S. - Darpa, District - East Champaran, Motihari ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Adv For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Zainul Abedin, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 05-02-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Darpa P.S. Case No. 132 of 2024 dated 17.09.2024 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 137(2), 96 and 3(5) of the B.N.S.

3. The main submissions advanced by petitioner's counsel are that the informant alleged in the F.I.R., that his minor daughter aged about 17 years had been kidnapped by the petitioner and his relatives and the said allegation was levelled mainly on the basis of suspicion when the informant's daughter was not found at her house, in fact, the victim herself left her house on account of being scolded by her parents and she was going to Nepal at the house of her aunt (Fua) but in the meantime, she was caught and all these facts have been revealed by the victim herself before the Judicial Magistrate while recording her statement under Section 183 of the B.N.S.S. It is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2062 of 2025(2) dt.05-02-2025 2/2 further submitted that after lodging the F.I.R., the victim's father realized the mistake and filed a compromise petition before the trial court. It is submitted that now there is no dispute in between both the parties, the petitioner is a young person having fair and clean antecedent.

4. Learned APP for the State has opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner.

5. Considering the aforesaid submissions advanced by petitioner's counsel, this Court is inclined to grant the relief of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, let the petitioner named-above, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Court concerned in connection with Darpa P.S. Case No. 132 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

6. Accordingly, the present application stands allowed.

(Shailendra Singh, J) Jyoti/- U T