Sonu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.60645 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-400 Year-2019 Thana- GOPALGANJ TOWN DistrictGopalganj ====================================================== SONU KUMAR SON OF PARAS MAHTO R/O- BHITBHERWA, P.S.- GOPALGANJ TOWN, DISTT.- GOPALGANJ ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Arvind Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Ajay Kumar Jha APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 08-02-2023 Learned counsel for the petitioner is permitted to remove the defect(s), as pointed out by the office, if any, within a period of three weeks from today.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

The Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable u/s 363, 366(A) of the Indian Penal Code.

As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and the coaccused person are alleged to have kidnapped the minor daughter of the informant for illegal purposes. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case. Learned counsel further submitted that the petitioner and the victim girl are living together and leading happy conjugal life. It is further

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.60645 of 2022(4) dt.08-02-2023 2/2 submitted that as per impugned order dated 13.07.2022 the victim girl went to the petitioner and married him in Thawe temple with her own sweet will. There is nothing against the petitioner to show that the petitioner kidnapped the minor girl forcibly to have illicit intercourse with other person. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition.

Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the anticipatory bail petition of the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the above named petitioner, in the event of his arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court concerned, Gopalganj in connection with Gopalganj Town P.S. Case No. 400 of 2019, subject to conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

The application stands allowed.

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