Vikash Yadav @ Vikash Kumar Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.69388 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-240 Year-2025 Thana- RANIGANJ District- Araria ====================================================== Vikash Yadav @ Vikash Kumar Yadav S/O Late Rajendra Yadav Resident of Village- Laxmipur, Ward No. 03, P.S- Raniganj, District- Araria. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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The State of Bihar 2.

x S/O Late Jhamendra Yadav x ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Gopal Kumar Jha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Md. Iftekhar Mahmood, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 21-01-2026 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 Section 96/3(5) of the B.N.S.

3. The allegation in the first information report relates to the kidnapping of the minor daughter of the informant.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that it would be apparent from the first information report itself that the F.I.R. has been lodged after an inordinate delay inasmuch as the date of occurrence is 27.06.2025, whereas the matter was reported on 02.07.2025, without tendering any explanation. It is further submitted that the informant had come to know that it was one Nilesh Yadav who allured the victim girl and taken to his house. It would further appear that the recovered victim girl in her statement recorded under Section 183 B.N.S.S. has clearly accepted that she was in relationship with Nilesh Yadav and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69388 of 2025(4) dt.21-01-2026 2/2 eloped with him to Punjab on her sweet will and she does not whisper the name of the petitioner in her statement recorded under Section 183 B.N.S.S. Thus, the main thrust of the allegation is upon Nilesh Yadav and the name of the petitioner has not been taken by the victim in her statement under Section 183 B.N.S.S.

5. Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case and also considering the fact that the victim girl in her statement recorded under Section 183 B.N.S.S. has not disclosed anything about the petitioner coupled with the fact that she has accepted that she was in relationship with one Nilesh Yadav, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below where the case is pending/successor Court in connection with Raniganj P.S. Case No. 240 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023.

(Soni Shrivastava, J) Trivedi/- U T