Chitranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.23865 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-44 Year-2024 Thana- PURNAHYA District- Sheohar ====================================================== Chitranjan Kumar Son of Ramjanam Ram Resident of village - Nagar Parishad Sheohar, Ward No.- 14, P.S.- Sheohar, District - Sheohar ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Yashraj Bardhan, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Nityanand, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 16-05-2025

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 363 and 366(A)/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that on 10.05.2025, at about 12:00 p.m., his daughter went to the school and when she did not return in the evening the informant started searching and during the course of search, he was informed that his daughter has been kidnapped by the petitioner along with other accused persons.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant based on suspicion. It is further submitted that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23865 of 2025(3) dt.16-05-2025 2/2 victim came back and thereafter her statement was recorded under Section 183 of the BNSS where she disclosed her age as 17 years and did not support the case of the prosecution rather stated that she had gone to the house of her aunt at Delhi for five months without informing her parents and when she came back then she came to know about the case.

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

6. Considering the submissions that the victim has not supported the case of the prosecution in her statement recorded under Section 183 of the BNSS, let the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below 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 amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Purnahiya P.S. Case No. 44 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T