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2025 DAILYLAW 19965 (JHR)

NITISH KUMAR ALIAS NITISH KUMAR MEHTA v. STATE OF JHARKHAND

B.A./6775/2025 · 2025-08-08

Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi

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( 2025:JHHC:22639 ) IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI B.A. No. 6775 of 2025 Nitish Kumar @ Nitish Kumar Mehta, aged about 22 years, S/o Butai Mehta, R/o Village Dandai, P.O. & P.S.Dandai, District- Garhwa, Jharkhand … Petitioner -Versus- The State of Jharkhand … Opposite Party ----- CORAM: HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE SANJAY KUMAR DWIVEDI ----- For the Petitioner : Mr. Aditya Kumar Jha, Advocate For the State : Ms. Nehala Sharmin, Spl.P.P. ----- 04/08.08.2025 The petitioner is seeking regular bail in connection with Dandai P.S. Case No. 11/2025, registered for the offences under Sections 87 and 140(4) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, pending before the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Garhwa. 2. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is in custody since 27.02.2025 and the victim has gone with the petitioner willingly and the allegations are made that the daughter of the informant was abducted by the petitioner. He submits that the occurrence took place on 25.01.2025, whereas, the FIR has been registered on 26.02.2025 i.e. after a month. He submits that the petitioner is innocent. 3. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer and submits that the allegations are there of abducting the daughter of the informant. 4. It transpires that the FIR has been registered after one month of the incident and the petitioner has remained in custody since 27.02.2025. 5. Regard being had to the above facts, I am inclined to enlarge the above-named petitioner, on bail, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Garhwa in connection with Dandai P.S. Case No.11/2025. (Sanjay Kumar Dwivedi, J.) Ajay/