Ranjit Kumar @ Shittu v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.50911 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-155 Year-2022 Thana- DIDARGANJ District- Patna ====================================================== RANJIT KUMAR @ SHITTU S/o Ganesh Prasad R/o Village/MohallaDidarganj, P.S.- Didarganj, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

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THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Satya Prakash Sinha,Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Jitendra Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 09-12-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State through video conferencing in view of the COVID 19.

Let the defect(s), if any, as pointed out by the office be removed within four weeks.

The petitioner is an accused in connection with Didarganj P.S. Case No. 155 of 2022 under Section 366(A) of the Indian Penal Code.

The informant in the F.I.R alleged that on 10.06.2022 his daughter Khushi Kumari proceeded from house to Narayani Womens College but did not return and he suspects that the accused, Ranjeet @ Sittu has kidnapped her. Accordingly, the F.I.R was lodged.

Subsequently, the police investigated the matter. The victim girl as also the accused suo moto appeared before the Court and while pursuant to the surrender of the petitioner on 24.06.2022, he was taken into custody, the victim girl was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50911 of 2022(2) dt.09-12-2022 2/3 produced before the learned Magistrate for her statement under Section 164 of Cr.P.C.

The victim girl thereafter deposed where she stated her age as 18 years and further stated that she left the place on her own because she was assaulted by her mother. It was her further statement that on the 11th of that month, she married the petitioner herein and thereafter remained in hotel and once the case was lodged and they came to know about it, they returned. Considering the conduct of the petitioner that he himself came back once he came to know about the FIR and surrendered immediately thereafter, the statement of the victim girl under Section 164 of the Cr.P.C, where she has stated her age to be 18 years with further admission that she left the place on her own and married the petitioner as also considering her 'Aadhar Card' where her Date of Birth has been shown as 01.01.2004 (Annexure-6), this Court is inclined to grant him privilege of bail.

Let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M.-IV, Patna City in connection with Didarganj P.S. Case No. 155 of 2022, subject to the following conditions:-

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50911 of 2022(2) dt.09-12-2022 3/3 (i) one of the bailor should be the family member of the petitioner who shall provide official document to show his/her bona fide;

(ii) the petitioner shall appear on each and every date before the Trial court and failure to do so for two consecutive dates without plausible reason will entail cancellation of his/her bail bond by the Trial court itself;

(iii) the petitioner shall in no way try to induce or promise or threat the witnesses or tamper with the evidences, failing which the State shall be at liberty to take steps for cancellation of his bail bonds;

(iv) the petitioner shall desist from committing any criminal offence again failing which the State shall be at liberty to take steps for cancellation of the bail bonds. With the aforesaid observations, the bail application is allowed.

(Rajiv Roy, J) Jagdish/Neha/- U T