Niranjan Kumar @ Niranjan Mahto v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.54017 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-25 Year-2025 Thana- UDAKISHUNGANJ District- Madhepura ====================================================== Niranjan Kumar @ Niranjan Mahto S/O Sri Ramsevak Mahto R/o VillageUda Purwaari Tola (Puwari Tola), Ward No. 03, P.S- Udakishunganj, DistrictMadhepura ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Pawan Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Kumar Ranjit Ranjan, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 21-08-2025
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 341, 342, 323, 506, 376, 354(B), 379 and 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 accused persons including the petitioner on 14.04.2024 at 10:00 p.m. entered her house while she was sleeping with her children and Ranveer Kumar closed her mouth and molested her and also assaulted with butt of gun, thereafter Ranveer Kumar committed rape and the accused snatched her ornaments and Rs.50,000/- and fled away.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.54017 of 2025(2) dt.21-08-2025 2/2 informant. It is further submitted that the date of occurrence is 14.04.2024 when BNSS had not come into existence and the FIR came to be instituted on 19.01.2025 under various sections of the Indian Penal Code for the reason that the date of occurrence alleged is 14.04.2024. It is next submitted the petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation to prove his innocence.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. 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 trial court 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 trial court where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Udakishunganj P.S. Case No. 25 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T