Jitu Kumar @ Jeetu KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18239 of 2026
                    Arising Out of PS. Case No.-297 Year-2024 Thana- UJIYARPUR District- Samastipur
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                 Jitu Kumar @ Jeetu Kumar S/O Akhilesh Sahni @ Akhilash Sahni Resident
                 of village- Buchoule/ Dulaur, P.S.- Jandaha, District- Vaishali
                                                                                 ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                      Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                                          ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Shanti Bhushan Singh, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Bharat Lal, A.P.P.
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   14-05-2026                  1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and

                   learned A.P.P. for the State.

                                2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case

                   registered for the offence punishable under Section 137(2) of the

                   BNS, 2023.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant

                   alleges that petitioner along with named accused persons

                   kidnapped her minor daughter aged about 17 years.

                                4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

                   petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the

                   informant. It is further submitted that petitioner and the

                   informant were known to each other and the victim has come

                   back and her statement was recorded under Section 183 BNSS

                   wherein she has not supported the case of the prosecution. It is
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                     next submitted that even presuming what has been alleged is

                     true without admitting then the victim had reached the age of

                     discretion. It is also submitted that if the privilege of

                     anticipatory bail is granted to the petitioner, the petitioner will

                     not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation to prove

                     his innocence.

                                  5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for

                     anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

                                  6. Considering the submissions made by the learned

                     counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner, let the petitioner,

                     above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a

                     period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail

                     on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand)

                     with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of

                     the learned Trial Court where the case is pending/Successor

                     Court in connection with Ujiarpur P.S. Case No. 297 of 2024,

                     subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of

                     the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S.


                                                                          (Satyavrat Verma, J)

Kundan/-

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