Budhan Paswan @ Budhan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.5246 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-24 Year-2025 Thana- BALUA BAZAR District- Supaul ====================================================== 1.
Budhan Paswan @ Budhan Kumar, 2.
Mukesh Paswan @ Mukesh Kumar Paswan, Both are S/o- Narayan Paswan 3.
Narayan Paswan S/o- Late Suvalal Paswan All are resident of village- Baluwa Bazar, W.No-01, P.S.- Baluwa Bazar Dist.- Supaul ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ramesh Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Shailendra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 22-04-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. The petitioners in this application pray for bail apprehending their arrest in connection with Baluwa Bazar P.S. Case no.24 of 2025 registered for the offence punishable under sections 87 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.
3. As per the prosecution case, the informant states that the accused persons had kidnapped his daughter for which Baluwa P.S. Case no.13 of 2025 had been registered. After recovery, his daughter has been handed over to him. It is further stated that once again in the night of 26.5.2025, the accused of the previous case including the petitioners herein kidnapped his daughter.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the case. The
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.5246 of 2026(4) dt.22-04-2026 2/2 allegation of kidnapping etc. are all false and concocted. The daughter of the informant ie the alleged victim returned and her statement was recorded under section 183 of the B.N.S.S. wherein she has not supported the prosecution case but has stated that she went voluntarily with the petitioner no.1, she has married him and is in the family way. She wants to live with her husband.
5. The application for bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.
6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegations in the FIR, the daughter of the informant having returned and specially the contents of her statement recorded under section 183 B.N.S.S., it is directed that all the three petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Baluwa Bazar P.S. Case no.24 of 2025 on each of them furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate I, Supaul. (Partha Sarthy, J) Saurabh/- U T