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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.37149 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-434 Year-2024 Thana- KESARIA District- East Champaran ====================================================== Ranjan Kumar S/O Bhikhari Sah @ Bhikhari Prasad@ Bhikhari Paswan R/O Vill.- Raghunathpur, P.s.- Kesariya, Dist.- East Champaran. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus
1. The State of Bihar Bihar
2. Hari Rai S/O Late Mukum Rai R/O Vill.- Raghunathpur, P.s.- Kesariya, Dist.- East Champaran. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Abhishek Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Anant Kumar 1 ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 02-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case in connection with Kesariya P.S. Case No. 434 of 2024 dated 20.12.2024 registered for the offence/s punishable u/s 87 read with section 3(5) of the BNS.
3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner in connivance with the other co-accused persons are alleged to have abducted the daughter of the informant on the pretext of marriage.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.37149 of 2025(2) dt.02-07-2025 2/2 this case. The victim is a major girl who is earlier married. As per the impugned order, the victim in her statement has stated that the petitioner and the co-accused persons abducted her and later on they left her at unknown place after snatching her ornament worth Rs. 2,30,000/- and cash Rs. 60,000/-. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the anticipatory bail petition of the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner, in the event of his arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court concerned, Motihari, East Champaran in connection with Kesariya P.S. Case No. 434 of 2024, subject to conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the BNSS.
7. The application stands allowed.
guddukr/- (Chandra Prakash Singh, J) U T