Niraj Kumar @ Niro @ Niranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.36660 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-313 Year-2024 Thana- SURYAGARHA District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== Niraj Kumar @ Niro @ Niranjan Kumar Son of Laddu Yadav Resident of - Chainanya, P.S.- Surajgarha, District - Lakhisarai. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Rajnish Chandra For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Bharat Bhushan ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NAWNEET KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 02-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as the learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Surajgarha P.S. Case No. 313 of 2024, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2) and 96 of the BNS.

3. The prosecution case in brief is that on 20.11.2024 at about 09:30 AM, the informant's son Dharmraj Kumar was abducted near NH-80 by accused Sonu Kumar, Neeraj Kumar (the petitioner) and five unknown persons at the point of pistol and taken in a Scorpio vehicle. He was forcibly taken to Mohanpur Dharhara and made to marry against his will. When he resisted, he was assaulted, causing injury to his right arm. He later escaped and returned home and narrated the entire occurrence.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.36660 of 2025(4) dt.02-12-2025 2/2 case. As a matter of fact, the petitioner is a co-villager and has been implicated due to village politics, with the intention to ruin his career as he is a student. The victim boy, neither in his statement under Section 180 of the BNSS nor in his statement under Section 183 of the BNSS, has disclosed with whom his marriage was being solemnized forcibly. The petitioner is a person of clean antecedent.

5. On the other hand, learned APP for the State has opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Considering the above-mentioned facts and circumstances especially the clean antecedent of the petitioner, let the petitioner, in the event of his arrest or surrender within four weeks before the learned court below, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned ACJM, Lakhisarai in connection with Surajgarha P.S. Case No. 313 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the CrPC/482(2) of the BNSS, 2023.

(Nawneet Kumar Pandey, J) Nirmal/- U T