Golu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.64230 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-385 Year-2024 Thana- MOKAMAH District- Patna ====================================================== Golu Kumar S/o Jwala Yadav R/o Village- Lemuwabad, PS- Pandarak, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Raj Kishor Prasad, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Awadhesh Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 24-09-2025

1. 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 of the BNS, 2023.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that her minor daughter aged about 17 years had gone to school, but did not return, on inquiry, it transpired that victim

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64230 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 2/3 had not come to the school, further search was made when informant came to know that victim was kidnapped by the petitioner.

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 no doubt victim is a major, but then even presuming what has been alleged in the FIR to be true without admitting then victim had reached the age of discretion. It is also submitted that the victim has come back and her statement was recorded under Section 180 BNSS wherein she has not supported the case of the prosecution rather has stated that she married the petitioner. It is also submitted that case has been compromised.

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 his 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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64230 of 2025(2) dt.24-09-2025 3/3 is pending/successor court in connection with Mokama P.S. Case No. 385 of 2024 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) Rishabh/- U T