Ayush Raj v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.8544 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-86 Year-2025 Thana- Gehlaur District- Gaya ====================================================== Ayush Raj Son of Arun Kumar Resident of Mohalla - AG Colony, Ranchi, P.S. - Doranda, District - Ranchi (Jharkhand) ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Anish Chandra, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 23-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State.

2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 69, 3(5), 115(2), 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

3. As per F.I.R., this petitioner established physical relation with the informant on several occasions and when informant asked to marry, petitioner demanded dowry of Rs. 30 lacs and later on, refused to marry.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that entire case as set out in the F.I.R. is false and concocted. Informant was major when the relationship developed between the parties and was fully aware of the consequences of such relationship which continued for about three years. He further submits that acts of repeated intimacy and sexual relationship

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.8544 of 2026(2) dt.23-02-2026 2/2 was consensual in nature and was not established under any false promise, threat or coercion and such, the same cannot be said to be induced or involuntary. As a matter of fact, it is a case of prolonged love affair between two consenting adults which has been given a colour of forcible sexual intercourse with oblique purpose and motive. Petitioner claims clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State vehemently opposed the bail application.

6. Considering backdrop of the case, nature of accusation and clean antecedent, this anticipatory bail is allowed and it is ordered that let the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of eight weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bailbond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Gayaji in connection with Gahlour P. S. Case No. 86 of 2025, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Navya/- U T