Fantush Tanti @ Abhishek Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.447 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-67 Year-2023 Thana- ISHAKCHAK District- Bhagalpur ====================================================== Fantush Tanti @ Abhishek Kumar S/o Late Mahesh Tanti Resident of Mohalla-Surkhikal, Bari Khanjarpur, P.S-Barari, District-Bhagalpur. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Praveen Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Jagdhar Prasad ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL KUMAR PANWAR ORAL ORDER 19-04-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. Petitioner has filed this application for grant of regular bail for the offence punishable under sections 383, 384, 385, 364, 406, 379, 342, 354(b), 504, 506, 509/34 of the Indian Penal Code and sections 27 of the Arms Act.
3. It is a case of abduction of informant's husband on pistol point and further make a call to the informant for demanding ransom of Rs. Two lac fifty thousand. It is further alleged that accused persons have used his ATM card for taking fuel and forwarded his personal photos to other accused persons for blackmailing him.
4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case. There is
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.447 of 2024(4) dt.19-04-2024 2/2 delay of six days in lodging the FIR. The husband of the informant returned to his home. No ransom demand was executed. Similarly situated other accused person has already been enlarged on bail by this Court vide order dated 29.01.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 56094 of 2023. Petitioner is languishing in judicial custody since 23.4.2023.
5. The application for bail is opposed by learned APP for the State.
6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and considering the facts and circumstances of the case, this court is inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail. The above named petitioner is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. ten thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Sessions Judge-X, Bhagalpur in connection with Ishak Chak P.S. Case No. 67 of 2023.
(Sunil Kumar Panwar, J) sushma/- U