Vijay Ravidas v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.12124 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-329 Year-2018 Thana- BHAGALPUR COMPLAINT CASE District- Bhagalpur ====================================================== Vijay Ravidas, Son Of Basu Ravidas R/O Village- Nanhkar, P.S.- Bihpur, District- Bhagalpur ... ... Petitioner/s

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The State Of Bihar 2.

Tumo Devi Wife Of Naresh Ravidas R/O Village- Nanhkar, P.S.- Bihpur, District- Bhagalpur ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Binod Murari Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Raj Kishore Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 12-09-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 504, 506, 354(B) of the Indian Penal Code.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the complainant alleges that on 02.07.2018 at mid-night when she was sleeping in the veranda when the petitioner entered her house and started touching her inappropriately and also tried to disrobe her. It is next alleged that informant woke up and raised alarm on which, the petitioner was caught, but her family members came and got him freed. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.12124 of 2022(2) dt.12-09-2022 2/2 petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is next submitted that the petitioner and the complainant are related as informant is own aunt of the petitioner, but this relationship has not been disclosed in the complaint petition. It is next submitted that there is a land dispute and it absolutely does not stand to reason that own nephew would try to outrage the modesty of his own aunt (Chachi) and that too in the mid-night and would attempt to disrobe her.

Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bailbonds in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below where the case is pending in connection with Complaint Case No.329 of 2018, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T