Awadhesh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.8938 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-74 Year-2025 Thana- MAHILA PS District- Jehanabad ====================================================== Awadhesh Kumar S/o Mahesh Vishwakarma R/o Village - Daulatpur, P.S - Kako, District - Jehanabad ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Amit Anand, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Bishweshwar Ram, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 24-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the Petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Jehanabad Mahila P.S. Case No. 74 of 2025 dated 20.11.2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 69, 352 and 351(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

3. Mr. Amit Anand, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the informant was admittedly twenty year old when she entered into relationship with this petitioner as per allegation and the said relationship is stated to have run for about one year but the informant remained silent and did not take any action but when the promise to marry her allegedly made by this petitioner was not fulfilled then she lodged the present case against him, however, the allegations made by the informant are completely false as petitioner is sole son of his parents and due to

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.8938 of 2026(2) dt.24-02-2026 2/2 this reason the informant wanted to marry him and when did not succeed she came up with a false story but before that petitioner had filed an informatory petition in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad showing his apprehension of false implication by the informant of which copy has been filed with this petition as Annexure-P/2. It is lastly submitted that petitioner is young person having fair and clean antecedent.

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

5. In the facts and circumstances of this case and considering the above submissions coupled with petitioner's young age and his fair and clean antecedent, 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 Jehanabad Mahila P.S. Case No. 74 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.

(Shailendra Singh, J) maynaz/- U T