Md. Sokhir Alam v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Anticipatory bail granted by Patna High Court in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 2536 of 2025, decided 13-02-2025 by Justice Anil Kumar Sinha, to three petitioners identified as the maternal uncles and father of co-accused Md. Sahil in Gwalpara Police Station Case No. 123 of 2024 (Madhepura), filed under Sections 323/376/417/498/493/34 of the Indian Penal Code following FIR allegations of a live-in relationship induced on the pretext of marriage and detention of the informant on a promise of marriage; bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- each with two like sureties, conditions per Section 438(2) CrPC; counsel Dinesh Prasad Verma for petitioners, Nawal Kishore Prasad for the State.
What did the court decide?
Anticipatory bail granted: petitioners, on arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, to be released on bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Udakishunganj, subject to conditions under Section 438(2) CrPC.