Aman Kumar @ Aman v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.69499 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-123 Year-2025 Thana- AURANGABAD TOWN DistrictAurangabad ====================================================== Aman Kumar @ Aman S/O Late Upendra Singh R/O Village Udham Bigha, P.S.- Salaiya, Dist.- Aurangabad.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Mukul Kumari For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Ahmad Ali ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 21-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered under Sections 137 and 96 of the BNS.

3. Allegation in the first information report is that the minor daughter of the informant was kidnapped and phone call was received from one Aman Kumar, who is the present petitioner, that his daughter had gone along with him for the purpose of marriage.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the present case has been lodged only upon some vague suspicion and upon a disclosure that the person talking on phone disclosed his name as Aman and that he wanted to marry the informant's daughter. As a matter of fact, the petitioner had never talked with the victim girl and she was recovered from the house of one Pintu

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69499 of 2025(3) dt.21-01-2026 2/2 Kumar in Jharkhand and it would be also a matter of consideration that the present FIR was also lodged after a delay of two days. Further, the statement of the victim girl under Section 183 of the BNSS indicates that she had gone away after her exams to the house of her relative at Chatra and had not disclosed the same to her parents only out of fear.

5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.

6. Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances and also considering the fact of delay in the FIR coupled with the statement of the victim under Section 183 of the BNSS, let the petitioner above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Aurangabad Town P.S. Case no. 123 of 2025 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 subject to the condition laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure/Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S. (Soni Shrivastava, J) devendra/- U T