Arun Kumar Das @ Arun KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.15664 of 2026
                         Arising Out of PS. Case No.-285 Year-2025 Thana- RAUTA District- Purnia
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                 Arun Kumar Das @ Arun Kumar S/o Kamal Kumar Das @ Komal Das
                 Resident of vill- Hariya, P.S- Routa, Distt.- Purnea
                                                                      ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                      Versus
           1.     The State of Bihar
           2.     Seema Devi W/o- Durga Prasad Das R/v- Hariya, P.S. - Routa, District -
                  Purnea.
                                                                  ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr.Sumit Kumar Bhagat, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr.Rana Randhir Singh, APP
                 For O.P. No. 2                   Mr. Ram Prawesh Kumar, Advocate
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DR. ANSHUMAN
                                       ORAL ORDER
3   06-05-2026                  Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner, learned APP

                   for the State and Learned Counsel for the opposite party no. 2.

                                2. The petitioner who apprehends arrest in connection

                   with Routa P.S. Case No. 285 of 2025 lodged on 23.11.2025, for

                   the offences punishable under sections 126(2), 115(2), 64,

                   351(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

                                3. As per the prosecution, the present FIR has been

                   lodged against six named accused persons, including the present

                   petitioner, alleging inter alia that the petitioner used to

                   communicate with the informant and allegedly used vulgar

                   language while also making improper advances, including offers

                   to establish a physical relationship. It is further alleged that the

                   informant did not disclose these incidents to anyone at the

                   relevant time. The petitioner is also alleged to have committed
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          rape upon the informant.

                       4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner

          that the petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence.

          The antecedents of the petitioner are clean, and he has no

          criminal history. It is further submitted that although the alleged

          occurrence is said to have taken place on 03.11.2025, the FIR

          has been lodged after an unexplained delay on 23.11.2025.

          Learned counsel contends that the present case is a counterblast

          to Routa P.S. Case No. 288 of 2025, which was earlier instituted

          by the petitioner against the informant alleging a case of honey

          trapping. It is further submitted that the informant had been

          repeatedly extorting money from the petitioner on several

          occasions under the threat of implicating him in false and

          malicious cases, and when the petitioner refused to comply with

          such demands, the present frivolous case has been instituted.

          Learned counsel further submits that, in fact, there existed a

          long-standing consensual relationship between the petitioner

          and the informant. When this relationship came to the

          knowledge of the villagers, a Panchayati was convened;

          however, despite such intervention, the relationship between the

          parties continued until the filing of the present case.

                       5. Learned Counsel appearing for the opposite party
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                   no. 2 vehemently opposes the prayer for bail of the petitioner

                   and submits that the allegation against the petitioner is specific

                   in the F.I.R.

                                6. Learned APP for the State vehemently opposes the

                   prayer for bail and submits that there is case and counter case

                   between the parties. Moreover, it has come in the order of the

                   learned Trial Court that the victim got her statement recorded

                   under Sections 180 and 183 of the B.N.S.S., 2023 wherein she

                   has supported the allegation of rape.

                                7. Considering the case and counter case between the

                   parties and annexure P/4 i.e. copy of the agreement between the

                   parties, let the petitioner above named be released on bail, in the

                   event of arrest or surrender before the Trial Court within a

                   period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of

                   ₹30000/- (thirty thousand) as mentioned in Section 2(1) (d) of

                   the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 to the satisfaction

                   of the Learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection

                   with Routa P.S. Case No. 285 of 2025, subject to the conditions

                   as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik

                   Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.


                                               (Dr. Anshuman, J)
Ashwini/Manshi
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