Koshila Devi @ Shushila Devi @ Kaushila Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.60138 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-196 Year-2025 Thana- PATAHI District- East Champaran ====================================================== Koshila Devi @ Shushila Devi @ Kaushila Devi Wife of Lakshmi Paswan Resident of village- Nonfarawa(Nonfarwa), P.S- Patahi, District- East Champaran.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Ajay Kumar Singh, Advocate For the State :

Ms.Nirmala Kumari, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 16-09-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 137(2), 87, 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman. The informant alleges that his daughter, aged about 18 years went to attend nature's call on 25.04.2025 at 6:30 P.M., when accused persons including the petitioner abducted her.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that the victim was in love with Mithlesh and she eloped. It is next submitted that since petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.60138 of 2025(2) dt.16-09-2025 2/2 is mother of Mithlesh, as such, she has been implicated in the instant case, in order to force Mithlesh into submission. It is further submitted that Mithlesh and the victim have performed their marriage and in support of the same have sworn an affidavit before Notary, Metropolitan Area, Bangalore, as would manifest from Annexure-2 to the anticipatory bail application.

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, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her 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 Patahi P.S. Case No. 196 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS.

7. Accordingly, the instant anticipatory bail application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) pallavi/- U T