Ranjeet Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18265 of 2019 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-193 Year-2018 Thana- NAANPUR District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== RANJEET KUMAR aged about 25 years, Male, Son of Rambabu Mahtato Resident of Village- Bari, Sauriya, P.S.- Jale, District- Darbhanga. ... ... Petitioner

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Ashhar Mustafa For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Shantanu Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD ORAL ORDER 02-04-2019 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

The petitioner is seeking anticipatory bail in connection with Nanpur P.S. Case No. 193 of 2018 registered under Sections 341, 366(A), 342, 323, 379, 504, 506, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that on perusal of the first information report it would appear that one Sunaina Devi wife of Sanjay Rai had confined the victim girl in her house. It is alleged that when the informant went in search of his daughter to the house of Sunaina Devi her father-in-law Laxmi Rai and Ramashray Rai assaulted the informant by means of Lathi and Danda.

Submission is that so far as this petitioner is concerned, no role at all has been assigned to this petitioner in the matter of either confinement or kidnapping of the victim girl. Attention of this court has been drawn towards the statement made by the victim girl under Section 164 Cr.P.C. in which she has also named only Sunaina Devi and Laxmi Rai. It

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18265 of 2019(2) dt.02-04-2019 2/2 is also submitted that petitioner has no criminal antecedent. Learned A.P.P. for the State has opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner stating that the victim girl was a minor one and petitioner seems to have helped the accused person in taking away of the victim girl, however it is stated that so far as the statement of the victim girl is concerned, there is no indication about this petitioner.

In the given facts and circumstances of the case considering that in her statement under Section 164 Cr.P.C. the victim girl has not named this petitioner, in the event of his arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks, let the above-named petitioner be enlarged on bail furnishing bail bond of Rs. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned S.D.J.M. Pupri, Sitamarhi, in connection with Nanpur P.S. Case No. 193 of 2018, subject to condition prescribed under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

(Rajeev Ranjan Prasad, J) Rajeev/- U T