Patna High CourtCR. MISC./79109/2025bail granted

Sushila Devi v. The State Of Bihar

2026-02-17Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.79109 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-72 Year-2024 Thana- BAKHARI District- Begusarai ====================================================== Sushila Devi W/O Rajeev sah R/O Vill.- Shanti Tola, Bakhri, Ward no.- 14,p.s- Bakhri, Dist.- Begusarai ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shubhesh Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Nirmal Kumar Sinha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-02-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 342, 328, 363, 366, 370, 372, 373, 376, 506 and 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code read with Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Immoral Trafficking (Prevention) Act.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman. It is next submitted that Lalita Devi, Dilip Sah and Chandni Devi had moved this Court seeking anticipatory bail by filing Criminal Miscellaneous No. 50861 of 2024 and the same came to be allowed by an order dated 24.09.2024 after considering the case in detail and on merits, thus, the learned counsel seeks anticipatory bail for the petitioner based on parity.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.79109 of 2025(2) dt.17-02-2026 2/2

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner.

5. The Court has gone through the order dated 24.09.2024 in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 50861 of 2024 and finds that the case of the petitioner is similar to the case of petitioners of Criminal Miscellaneous No. 50861 of 2024.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the order dated 24.09.2024 in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 50861 of 2024 the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender 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 is pending/successor court in connection with Bakhari P.S. Case No. 72 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T