Krishna Manjhi @ Krishn Manjhi @ Krishn v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21991 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-35 Year-2025 Thana- MAHILA P.S. District- Nawada ====================================================== Krishna Manjhi @ Krishn Manjhi @ Krishn S/o Late Etwari Manjhi R/o vill - Mohiuddinpur, P.s.- Nawada Town, Distt.- Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar.

2.

XX W/o Y R/o vill - Mohiuddinpur, P.S.- Nawada Town, Distt.- Nawada ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Devendra Prasad Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Anil Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 08-07-2026 Despite valid service of notice, no one appears on behalf of the O.P. No.2.

2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

3. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No.35 of 2025 instituted under Sections 126(2) and 74 of the B.N.S., 2023 and Sections 8 & 12 of the POCSO Act.

4. As per the F.I.R., it is alleged that on the date of occurrence, the informant's daughter aged about 13 years, was grazing her goat at the bank of river, where petitioner was also

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21991 of 2026(3) dt.08-07-2026 2/3 present. It is alleged that petitioner took the informant's daughter to bush and started using filthy language on which the informant's daughter started crying due to which petitioner fled away from the spot.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case. Both the parties are next door neighbours and due to dispute over water drainage, the present case has been lodged. He further submits that both the parties have amicably settled the dispute and in this regard a joint compromise petition has also been filed in the Court concerned. No case is made out for the POCSO Act. Petitioner is a poor labourer, having got clean antecedent and he undertakes to cooperate in the trial and investigation of the case.

6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.

7. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, submissions of learned counsel for the parties and clean antecdent of the petitioner in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21991 of 2026(3) dt.08-07-2026 3/3 amount to each to the satisfaction of the learned A.D.J. VI cum Special Court (POCSO Act), Nawada in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No.35 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) Utkarsh.k/- U T