Gunjan KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.4652 of 2026
                   Arising Out of PS. Case No.-27 Year-2025 Thana- Jagdishpur District- West Champaran
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                 Gunjan Kumar, S/o- Sri Laxman Prasad @ Laxuman Prasad, R/o Village-
                 Diuliya W.No-7, P.S.- Jagdishpur Dist- West Champaran

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :        Mr. Sharad Kumar Verma, Adv.
                 For the Opposite Party/s :        Mr. Harendra Prasad, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA
                                       ORAL ORDER

3   25-02-2026                      Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and

                   learned A.P.P for the State.

                                2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with

                   Jagdishpur P.S. Case No. 27 of 2025 dated 11.02.2025

                   registered for the offence punishable under Sections 96,

                   137(2), 351(2) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita,

                   2023.

                                3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on the

                   alleged date of occurrence at about 6:00 P.M. in the

                   evening, the daughter of the informant aged about 14 years

                   went to attend the call of nature but she did not return till

                   late night. Then, the family members of the informant

                   started calling her on her mobile, which was found switched
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          off and in the meantime, a phone call came from mobile

          number 9122754542 and he informed that the victim girl is

          with him and when the informant made inquiry regarding

          his name and address then he refused to reveal the same.

          The informant has full confidence that the proprietor of the

          same mobile number has fled away with the victim girl for

          the wrong purpose of marriage by persuading her.

                       4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

          the petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in

          this case. It is submitted that both, the petitioner and the

          victim girl are at tender age. Later, the statement of the

          victim girl was recorded under Section 183 of the B.N.S.S.,

          wherein, she specifically stated that she was in love with the

          petitioner and she went with the petitioner on her own sweet

          will and she returned, when she came to know about this

          case. It is further submitted that there is no whisper that the

          petitioner has committed any wrong act or misbehaved with

          the victim. The petitioner is in custody since 29.08.2025,

          having no criminal antecedent and charge-sheet has been

          submitted in the case.

                       5. Learned A.P.P for the State opposes the prayer
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                      for bail of the petitioner.

                                   6. Having considered the facts and circumstances

                      of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the

                      parties, let the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing

                      bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties

                      of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned

                      Judicial Magistrate-Ist Class, Bettiah, West Champaran in

                      connection with Jagdishpur P.S. Case No. 27 of 2025.



                                                   (Khatim Reza, J)
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