Page No.# 1/2 GAHC010245182025 undefined THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : AB/2636/2025 PREMANANDA NATH S/O- RANJIT NATH, R/O- VILL -BAMUNKURA, P.O.- DHANPUR, P.S.- SAPATGRAM, DISTRICT- DHUBRI, ASSAM, PIN 783337 VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM REPRESENTED BY THE PP, ASSAM Advocate for the Petitioner : MR. M U MONDAL, S S AHMED Advocate for the Respondent : PP, ASSAM, BEFORE HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SANJEEV KUMAR SHARMA ORDER Date : 06.11.2025 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard the learned Additional Public Prosecutor. This petition under Section 482 BNSS is filed by the petitioner, namely, Premananda Nath, apprehending arrest in connection with Sapatgram P.S. Case No. 54/2025 u/s 318(4) BNS. The allegation against the petitioner is that he was in a love relationship Page No.# 2/2 with the informant, who is a major and when the same was discovered, a written assurance was obtained from the petitioner that he would marry the informant on 03.09.2025, but after passing of the said date, the petitioner left his home and his phone was found switch off. From the contents of the FIR itself, it appears that the petitioner was made to give the assurance of marriage under duress. Having regard to the nature of allegation, the prayer for pre-arrest bail is allowed. Accordingly, it is directed that in the event of arrest, the petitioner, named above, in connection with the aforesaid case, shall be released on pre-arrest bail on furnishing a bail bond of Rs.50,000/- with one surety of the like amount to the satisfaction of the Arresting Authority subject to the conditions that the petitioner shall appear before the Investigating Authority within 10 days from today; the petitioner shall cooperate with the Investigating Authority and the petitioner shall not hamper or tamper with the evidences of the case. The anticipatory bail application is accordingly disposed of. JUDGE Comparing Assistant