Pulkit Kumar @ Pulkit v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27648 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-116 Year-2024 Thana- Patour District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Pulkit Kumar @ Pulkit Son of Jitendra Shahi @ Jitendra Sahni Resident of Village-Raj Khand, P.S-Aurai, District-Muzaffarpur Presently Working in IIFL Samastha Finance Company Ltd. on the Post of CRO, Branch Lehariasarai, Darbhanga ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Prem Ranjan Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Tapeshwar Sharma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-08-2025 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), 115(2), 118(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
3.
Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that she runs a shop where people come for breakfast, it is next alleged that the informant had taken a loan of Rs. 50,000/- from IIFL Finance Limited, further on 18-11-2024, Pulkit along with another employee came to her shop seeking the payment of installment of Rs. 1,230/-. It is further alleged
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27648 of 2025(3) dt.13-08-2025 2/3 that the informant was having only Rs. 600/-, as such the accused person started abusing and assaulting and threw hot oil on her body causing injury.
4.
The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that it does not appear probable that employee of a finance company would indulge in such an act. It is further submitted that injury report of the informant records that she suffered burn injury, but then the injury was caused by hot water. It is next submitted that the informant, with a view to give Rs. 600, was trying to find the money, which was kept on a shelf, hence she stood on a chair and slipped and thus got injured by water kept on the stove. It is also submitted that 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, the petitioner above-named, 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/-
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27648 of 2025(3) dt.13-08-2025 3/3 (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Pataur P.S. Case No. 116 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS.
7.
However, it is made clear that in the event, 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, in that event, the learned trial court shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioner. 8.
Let a copy of this order be sent to the concerned police station through the learned Trial Court. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T