Guddu Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.35525 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-252 Year-2021 Thana- AMNAUR District- Saran ====================================================== GUDDU KUMAR SINGH Son of Harendra Singh Resident of Village and P.O.- Jhakhara, P.S.- Amnaur, District - Saran at Chapra (Bihar). ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rakesh Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Madhura Nand Jha, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 29-11-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 354(B), 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 6 / 8 of the Prevention of Children from Sexual Offences and Section 67 of the I.T. Act. The informant alleges that his minor grand-daughter used to study in a coaching centre and co-villager Guddu Kumar (petitioner) with four, five other rogue boys used to threaten her and pressurize her to meet them, further, on her not meeting, they threatened to rape and kill her, it is further alleged that they even made her photo viral on social-media sites.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and has been falsely implicated in the present case, it is next submitted that the statement

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.35525 of 2022(2) dt.29-11-2022 2/2 of the victim was recorded under Section 164 CrPC, wherein, she has not supported the prosecution case, rather, she has stated that she consider the petitioner as her brother but her grand-father had some misconception based on which the present false case came to be instituted.

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

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. 5,000/- (Rupees Five 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 Amnaur P.S. Case No. 252 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) HarshPandey/- U T