Navneet Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.70708 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-29 Year-2025 Thana- MAHILA PS District- Khagaria ====================================================== Navneet Kumar S/o- Sikandar Mandal R/v- Mathurapur Khajraitha W.No-12, Ps- Bharatkhand Dist- Khagaria ... ... Petitioner/s

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The State of Bihar 2.

Amisha Kumari Daughter of Anil Mandal Resident of Village- MathurapurKhajraitha, P.S.- Bharatkhand, Khagaria ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ram Sumiran Rai, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Parmanand Kumar, A.P.P.

For the Informant :

Mr. Rakesh Mohan Singh, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 12-03-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, informant and the State.

2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 69, 351(2), 351(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

3. As per F.I.R., informant alleged that on pretext of marriage, this petitioner established physical relation with the informant and thereafter, refused to marry.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that entire case as set out in the F.I.R. is false and concocted. Informant was major when the relationship developed between the parties and was fully aware of the consequences of such relationship which continued for about five years. He further submits that acts of repeated intimacy and sexual relationship was consensual in nature

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.70708 of 2025(4) dt.12-03-2026 2/2 and was not established under any false promise, threat or coercion and such, the same cannot be said to be induced or involuntary. As a matter of fact, it is a case of prolonged love affair between two consenting adults which has been given a colour of forcible sexual intercourse with oblique purpose and motive. Petitioner claims clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State as well as learned counsel for the informant vehemently opposed the bail application.

6. Considering backdrop of the case, nature of accusation and clean antecedent, this anticipatory bail is allowed and it is ordered that let the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of eight weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Khagaria in connection with Mahila P. S. Case No. 29 of 2025, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Navya/- U T