Sunil Kumar @ Sonu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.37616 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-145 Year-2021 Thana- BALIGAON District- Vaishali ====================================================== Sunil Kumar @ Sonu Kumar S/O Baiju Lal Prasad R/O Village- Mustafaganj, P.S- Minapur, Distt.- Muzaffarpur.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Manohar Prasad Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Zainul Abedin, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-06-2025

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 304(B) and 201/34 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 his daughter was killed by her brother-in-law. It is further submitted that during the course of investigation, it transpired that the victim was not killed rather she had on her own volition eloped with this petitioner who is brother of the Bhabhi of the victim. It is next submitted that it has been specifically pleaded at para 12 of the anticipatory bail application that police arrested the petitioner and the victim from the house of the informant and on 30.12.2021 they were produced before the learned Judicial

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37616 of 2025(2) dt.18-06-2025 2/2 Magistrate, 1st Class, Hazipur and a prayer was made for remanding them into judicial custody in view of the changed allegation for offences under Sections 420 and 120(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code but then the learned trial court refused to remand the petitioner in judicial custody as such the police released the petitioner and the victim on PR bond. It is also submitted that since cognizance has been taken as such the petitioner apprehends arrest.

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

5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, 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 Baligaon P.S. Case No. 145 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T