Goutam Kumar @ Goutam Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.79754 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-69 Year-2024 Thana- TIKAPATTI District- Purnia ====================================================== Goutam Kumar @ Goutam Kumar Singh S/o- Sri Mithilesh Singh VillageGoriyar East Got Tola Ps-Tikapatti Dist- Purnia ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
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The State of Bihar 2.
SangeetaDevi W/o- Sri Binod Thakur Village- Goriyar East Got Tola PsTikapatti Dist- Purnia ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Amit Kumar Anand, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Kalyan Shankar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-01-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner seeks bail in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 354 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 8 of the POCSO Act in connection with Tikapatti P.S. Case No.69 of 2024.
3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner had earlier moved before this Court seeking anticipatory bail by filing Cr. Misc. No.57479 of 2024 and the same came to be rejected by an order dated 24.09.2024.
4. It is next submitted that petitioner is in custody since 04.10.2024. It is further submitted that since there was a dispute relating to payment of tuition fee as such the petitioner
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.79754 of 2024(2) dt.17-01-2025 2/2 came to be implicated in the instant case by the informant with an allegation that petitioner with an ill intention acted inappropriately with the victim and even removed his pant for committing rape, but victim raised an alarm on which the informant hearing the alarm came and caught the informant, but he fled pushing her and leaving his motorcycle behind.
5. The learned APP for the State opposes the bail application and submits that petitioner was a teacher of the victim and the allegation has been levelled by mother of the victim and no mother would want to tarnish the image of her daughter based on false allegation.
6. Considering the submission made by the learned APP the Court for the present is not inclined to release the petitioner on bail, accordingly, the regular bail application is rejected.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Prakash Narayan U T