Subodh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13935 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-28 Year-2025 Thana- MEDNI CHAUKI District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== Subodh Kumar Son of Late Bhuneshwar Mahto Resident of Village - Khawa Chandra Tola, P.S.- Mednichowki, District - Lakhisarai, Bihar. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Niraj Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Madan Kumar, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 31-03-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 127(2), 115(2), 74, 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3)5) of the BNS.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that he declined the proposal of marriage of the petitioner with his minor daughter. Further, when the informant and his wife were away, the petitioner came with arms and threatened his daughter to marry. On alarm, people gathered and petitioner fled away committing theft of jewellery and even tried to forcibly take his daughter away.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13935 of 2026(2) dt.31-03-2026 2/3 informant. It is further submitted that though it is alleged that petitioner came with arms and threatened the daughter of the informant but then the FIR has not been instituted under the Arms Act. It is next submitted that petitioner is a mason by profession and has been working and residing at Amritsar since long and had given loan of Rs.1,80,000/- to the husband of the informant but then the amount was not being returned on account of which an altercation had taken place earlier and thereafter the petitioner came to be implicated in the instant case. It is also submitted that if the privilege of anticipatory bail is granted to the petitioner, the petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation to prove his innocence.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the fact that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, let the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Trial Court where the case
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13935 of 2026(2) dt.31-03-2026 3/3 is pending/Successor Court in connection with Mednichowki P.S. Case No. 28 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
7. However, it is made clear that if the Investigating Officer of the case files an application before the learned Trial Court bringing to its notice that the petitioner, despite giving assurance to this Court, is not cooperating in the investigation, the learned Trial Court shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioner.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T