Tuntun Singh @ Sagar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.29836 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-225 Year-2024 Thana- RIVILGANJ District- Saran ====================================================== Tuntun Singh @ Sagar Singh S/o Late Upendra Singh R/o Reoti Ward No. 1, P.S.- Rivilganj, District- Ballia, Uttar Pradesh- 277209 ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Gyan Abhinav, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Parmanand Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 11-08-2025 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 137 (2) and 96 of the B.N.S.

3. The allegation in the first information report is that the daughter of the informant went missing on 14.07.2024 and, subsequently, he got knowledge that the petitioner had taken his daughter along with him, who was earlier also on visiting and talking terms with his daughter.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that it would be evident from the first information report itself that the case has been lodged only upon suspicion and the informant has admitted that the petitioner was on talking and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29836 of 2025(5) dt.11-08-2025 2/3 visiting terms to the house of the informant. It is further submitted that the entire story of enticing and kidnapping is not correct. As a matter of fact, the victim, according to her statement recorded under Section 183 BNSS, had gone along with the mother of the petitioner to Delhi by train while the petitioner did not go to Delhi. She has further stated that she was left by the mother of the petitioner at the Delhi Station and stayed for a month in Balika Grih from where she came back home. In her statement under Section 183 BNSS, she has not said anything against the petitioner.

5. Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case coupled with the fact that petitioner is a young boy aged about 21 years, having clean antecedent and also considering the fact that there is no allegation against him in the statement of the victim under Section 183 BNSS, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.29836 of 2025(5) dt.11-08-2025 3/3 case is pending/successor Court in connection with Revelganj (Saran) P.S. Case No. 225 of 2024, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023.

(Soni Shrivastava, J) Trivedi/- U T