Dharmendra Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.71909 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-14 Year-2025 Thana- MAHILA THANA District- Begusarai ====================================================== Dharmendra Kumar S/O Umesh Tanti R/O Village- Pannapur, Ward No. 2, Post- Ulao, (Ullao), P.S- Matihani, District- Begusarai. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sandip Kumar Gautam, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Jai Narain Thakur, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHOK KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 14-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 69, 115(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of B.N.S., 2023 as well as under Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

3. The case of the prosecution, in short, is that the informant had gone for enrollment in R.C.S. College, Bihat. There she met the petitioner. They exchanged their numbers. After that affair was developed between them. They started establishing physical relationship at the house of the petitioner and at the house of the informant as well. Further case of the prosecution is that the petitioner has established physical relationship in false promise of marriage and when the informant told the petitioner to solemnized marriage, the petitioner denied to marry her. It is further alleged

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71909 of 2025(2) dt.14-10-2025 2/2 that all the family members of the petitioner ousted her from the house and assaulted her and they demanded Rs.10,00,000/- in dowry.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that from perusal of the FIR itself, it is clear that the relationship between the petitioner and the informant was consensual. It has also been submitted that same statement has been made by the informant in her statement recorded before the police under Section 183 of B.N.S.S. and that she has denied the medical examination.

5. Learned APP for the State conceded to the argument that the relationship between the petitioner and the informant was consensual.

6. Considering the above facts and circumstances of the case, let petitioner, above named, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rs. Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Mahila P.S. Case No.14 of 2025.

(Ashok Kumar Pandey, J) Sanjay/- U T