Ravi Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.61351 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1968 Year-2024 Thana- EAST CHAMPARAN COMPLAINT District- East Champaran ====================================================== Ravi Kumar S/o Krishna Prasad, R/O Village- Awadhesh Chowk, Koluharwa, P.S.- Motihari Nagar, District- East Champaran, Motihari. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar.

2.

Namika Kumari W/O Ravi Kumar R/O Village- Awadhesh Chowk, Koluharwa, P.S.- Motihari Nagar, District- East Champaran, Motihari ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sumit Kumar Gupta, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Abhay Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 10-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner, who happens to be husband of O.P. No.2, is apprehending his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.1968 of 2024 wherein cognizance has been taken for the offence punishable under Section 498A of the Indian Penal Code.

3. It is fairly contended that apprehending arrest, the petitioner moved before the Court of learned Sessions Judge, East Champaran, Motihari, wherein the Court has disposed off the anticipatory bail application in the light of the mandate of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Arnesh Kumar v.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.61351 of 2025(2) dt.10-09-2025 2/2 State of Bihar [(2014) 8 SCC 273] and the decision rendered in Satyendra Kumar Antil v. Central Bureau of Investigation & Anr. [S.L.P. (Cri) No.5191 of 2021]; however, the petitioner instead of approaching the jurisdictional court has moved this Court by filing the present bail application.

4. This Court after having gone through the order passed by the Court of learned Sessions Judge, East Champaran, Motihari, does not find any reason to interfere in the impugned order. Accordingly, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner stands disposed off with a liberty to the petitioner to approach before the jurisdictional court in the light of the direction passed in Anticipatory Bail Petition No.3152 of 2025.

5. Suffice it to observe that in case, the petitioner would surrender before the jurisdictional court, preferably within a period of four weeks' from today, his application shall be disposed off in the light of the direction and observation made by the learned Sessions Judge, forthwith. (Harish Kumar, J) rohit/- U