Patna High CourtCR. MISC./39475/2025bail granted

Bikram Mandal @ Bikram Kumar @ Vikram Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2025-10-15Mr. Justice Chandra Prakash Singh2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.39475 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-494 Year-2024 Thana- SHERGHATI District- Gaya ====================================================== BIKRAM MANDAL @ BIKRAM KUMAR @ VIKRAM KUMAR S/oSurjan Mandal Village- Singh Pokhar P.S. Dobhi District- Gaya ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar Bihar 2.

Tara Devi W/o- Vinod Das Village- Kachauri Tola Baheri Ps- Sherghati DistGaya ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Shailesh Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Anil Kumar Singh No. 1 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 15-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State.

2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in connection with Sherghati P.S. Case No. 494/2024 dated 29.09.2024 registered for the offences punishable u/ss 96, 64, 351(2), 352 read with section 3(5) of the BNS and section 4 of the POCSO Act.

3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and the co-accused persons in connivance with one another are alleged to have kidnapped the minor daughter of the informant.

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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.39475 of 2025(4) dt.15-10-2025 2/2 this case. There is love affair between the petitioner and the victim. The victim in her statement recorded u/s 183 of the BNSS has stated that she herself called the petitioner and thereafter they went to Chennai by train and the victim also solemnized marriage with the petitioner. The petitioner has clean antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is in custody since 02.11.2024.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the period of custody, the petitioner abovenamed, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court concerned, Gaya in connection with Sherghati P.S. Case No. 494/2024.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Chandra Prakash Singh, J) guddukr/- U T