Sunil Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21026 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-278 Year-2024 Thana- MANJHAGARH District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Sunil Manjhi S/O Yogendra Manjhi Resident of Village- Koini, Police Station- Manjhagarh, Distt.- Gopalganj.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shiv Sager Sharma, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Khurshid Anwar, APP.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 30-04-2025 Heard Mr. Shiv Sagar Sharma, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Khurshid Anwar, learned APP for the State.

2. Petitioner seeks regular bail in connection with Manjhagarh P.S. Case No. 278 of 2024 dated 21.09.2024 registered for the offences punishable under sections 137(2), 96,3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The main submissions advanced by the petitioner's counsel are that the petitioner is 19 years old and, the so called victim herself appeared before the police and recorded her statements under Sections 180 and 183 of BNSS and the copies of these statements have been filed as annexure-2 series, and from bare perusal of these statements, it is evident that the said victim revealed two different stories in her statements. It is further submitted that as per the prosecution's story, the victim

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21026 of 2025(2) dt.30-04-2025 2/2 went missing on 05.09.2024 but the FIR was lodged by her brother on 21.09.2024 i.e. sixteen days after the commission of the alleged occurrence without explaining the dealy. It is lastly submitted that the petitioner has been languishing in jail since 30.10.2024.

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

5. In the facts and circumstances of this case as well as considering the aforesaid submissions and mainly the facts that the so called victim has been recovered and the petitioner is said to be a young person having fair and clean antecedent also coupled with the contradictory stories revealed by the victim before the police and Judicial Magistrate, in my opinion, it is a fit case for relief of bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, let the petitioner named-above be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/-(Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the court concerned in connection with Manjhagarh P.S. Case No. 278 of 2024. (Shailendra Singh, J) siddharthkr/- U T