Prince KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.36051 of 2026
                     Arising Out of PS. Case No.-255 Year-2026 Thana- KADAMKUAN District- Patna
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                 Prince Kumar S/o Dilip Prasad Resident of- Paschmi LOhanipr, Pachkauri,
                 Buddha Murthi, P.S.- kadamkuan, District - Patna, Bihar

                                                                                ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                      Versus
                 The State of Bihar

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr. Vikas Kumar Jha, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Mr. Pradeep Narain Kumar, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DR. ANSHUMAN
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   01-06-2026                     The Court proceeding is being conducted through

                   virtual mode.

                                2. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   APP for the State.

                                3. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in connection

                   with Kadamkuan P.S. Case No. 255 of 2026, dated 31.03.2026,

                   lodged under Section 96 of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023

                   (hereinafter referred to as “BNS, 2023”).

                                4. As per the prosecution, the FIR has been lodged

                   against the present petitioner alleging that he enticed the

                   informant's daughter to accompany him. It is further alleged that

                   the petitioner contacted the informant and his family members

                   and extended threats to them. However, on the following day,

                   the petitioner allegedly left the informant's daughter. Upon
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          being questioned by her family members, she stated that she had

          been subjected to torture during the night of 30.03.2026.

          Thereafter, the present case was instituted.

                       5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

          petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence. Counsel

          further submits that the daughter of the informant and the

          petitioner were in love and, with her consent, she went with the

          petitioner and lived at the house of the petitioner's friend, and on

          the next day, she returned to her own house. Counsel further

          submits that subsequently, under Section 183 of the BNSS, she

          has not disclosed anything against the present petitioner and

          everywhere she has stated that she had gone with him with her

          consent. Counsel further submits that the criminal antecedent of

          the petitioner is not clean, as two criminal cases are pending

          against him. However, he is on bail in both the cases, and both

          the cases relate to the Bihar Prohibition & Excise Act. Counsel

          also submits that the petitioner is ready to fulfil all the

          conditions whatsoever may be imposed upon him.

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

          bail of the petitioner but fairly submits that, from the statements

          recorded under Sections 180 and 183 of the BNSS, 2023,

          nothing has come against the present petitioner.
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                                 7. Considering the facts and circumstances of the

                    present case, let the above-named petitioner be released on

                    anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the

                    Trial Court within a period of 4 weeks from today, on furnishing

                    bail bond of Rs.30,000/- (Rupees Thirty Thousand) as

                    mentioned in Section 2(1)(d) of the BNSS, 2023 to the

                    satisfaction of Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Patna, in connection

                    with Kadamkuan P.S. Case No. 255 of 2026, subject to the

                    conditions as laid down U/s 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023.



                                                                         (Dr. Anshuman, J.)

Aman Kumar/-

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