Ranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.16813 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-269 Year-2021 Thana- KANTI District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== RANJAN KUMAR Son of Jaylal Das Resident of Village - Khajuri, P.s.,- Kanti, Distt.- Muzaffarpur.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Ms. Anita Kumari Singh, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 22-09-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 354, 354(c), 354(b) 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 12 of the POSCO Act.

The informant alleges that her neighbour (petitioner) has bad eyes on her minor daughter and used to harass her, it is next alleged that on 20.03.2021 when the victim had gone to study from her house, petitioner misbehaved with her. It is further alleged that when informant came to know about the same, she went to the house of the petitioner who abused her by taking her caste name and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.16813 of 2022(2) dt.22-09-2022 2/3 assaulted and tore her blouse but on alarm the nearby people intervened and saved her.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and has been falsely implicated in the present case, it is next submitted that from perusal of the FIR it would manifest that the date of occurrence is 20.03.2021 and the FIR came to be instituted on 06.04.2021 and as such the petitioner came to be implicated by way of after thought. Learned counsel further submits that petitioner and informant are neighbour and their ingress and egress is common on account of which there is dispute between them as such the present false case came to be instituted after a dispute arose.

Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and the fact that there was an inordinate delay in instituting the FIR, the petitioner abovenamed, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned trial court 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.16813 of 2022(2) dt.22-09-2022 3/3 amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Kanti P.S. Case No. 269 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) gauravkr/- U T