Md. Ashik @ Altaf Raja v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.63945 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-18 Year-2025 Thana- ARERAJ District- East Champaran ====================================================== Md. Ashik @ Altaf Raja S/o- Md. Sakim Resident of Village-Bhuwan Chhapra, Police Station-Chakia Dist- East Champaran at present residing at Barwa Ward No 11 Police Station-Areraj, District-East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shakil Ahmad Khan, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Md. Nazir Ansari, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 10-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2.

The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Areraj P.S. Case No. 18 of 2025 instituted for the offence under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 316(2), 318(4), 338 & 336(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3.

The informant alleged that petitioner lured her with a false promise of a job at Sadar Hospital, Motihari, and took Rs. 1,00,000/- on 10.10.2024; later, in January 2025, he gave her a Sari, an ID card, and a forged joining letter and when she demanded her money back, he abused and refused, whereupon she, with her family's help, caught him on 22.01.2025 along with the forged documents and handed him to the police.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.63945 of 2025(2) dt.10-09-2025 2/3 4.

It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner is in custody since 23-01-2025. Petitioner bears no criminal antecedent, as per disclosure made in paragraph No. 3 of the bail application.

5.

It has been further submitted by the petitioner's counsel that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. There is delay of more than three months in lodging the FIR. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is no evidence for making the documents forged by the petitioner. Nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. Charge sheet has already been submitted in this case.

6.

Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner. 7.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, period of custody of the petitioner and charge sheet being submitted, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioner.

8.

Let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 15,000/- (Fifteen Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with Areraj P.S. Case No.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.63945 of 2025(2) dt.10-09-2025 3/3 18 of 2025, subject to the following conditions: (I) One of the bailors shall be own/close member of the family of the petitioner.

(II) The petitioner shall appear on each and every date fixed at the trial. In case of default in such appearance on two consecutive dates, the Trial Court will have liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioner.

(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Raj Kishore/- U T