IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14569 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-944 Year-2025 Thana- MAHUA District- Vaishali ====================================================== 1. Nawal Paswan S/o Indradeo Paswan R/o Village - Shembho Patti, P.S - Mahua, District - Vaishali 2. Ranjeet Paswan S/o Indradeo Paswan R/o Village - Shembho Patti, P.S - Mahua, District - Vaishali 3. Sheela Devi W/o Nawal Paswan R/o Village - Shembho Patti, P.S - Mahua, District - Vaishali 4. Aankul Kumar S/o Nawal Paswan R/o Village - Shembho Patti, P.S - Mahua, District - Vaishali 5. Shivam Kumar S/o Ranjeet Paswan R/o Village - Shembho Patti, P.S - Mahua, District - Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mrs. Bela Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Lakshmi Kant Sharma, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 2 12-03-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered under Sections 69, 126(2), 115(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. 3. As per the prosecution case, co-accused Pankaj Kumar sexually exploited the victim and when the mother of the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14569 of 2026(2) dt.12-03-2026 2/3 victim went to complain about the misdeed of co-accused Pankaj Kumar, she was assaulted by the petitioners. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in the present case. Further submission is that there is no specific allegation against the petitioners with respect to sexual exploitation. Specific allegation of sexual exploitation of the victim is against co-accused Pankaj Kumar. Petitioner no. 1 has one criminal antecedent which belongs to the Excise Act and other petitioners have no criminal antecedent. They undertake to cooperate in the investigation and trial. 5. Learned A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State opposed the bail application. 6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case as well as the fact that no specific allegation against the petitioners, let the above named petitioners be released on bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-IV, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Mahua P.S. Case No. 944 of 2025, subject to Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14569 of 2026(2) dt.12-03-2026 3/3 the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. utkarsh/- (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) U T