Lalbabu Prasad v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Anticipatory bail allowed by Patna High Court (single bench, Justice Chandra Shekhar Jha) on 15-01-2026 in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 71644 of 2025 for Lalbabu Prasad, a teacher, apprehending arrest in Sanichari P.S. Case No. 91 of 2025 (District West Champaran) for offences under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 75, 352, 351(2), 351(3), 3(5) of the BNS 2023 and Sections 10 and 12 of the POCSO Act; the court observed that the sexual-assault allegation concerned co-accused Vakil Rijwani and the petitioner appeared prima facie implicated under the garb of corporeal threatening as teacher of the informant's minor daughter; bail bond of Rs. 10,000 with two sureties of the like amount each; conditions under Section 482(2) BNSS; case pending before the learned Special Judge POCSO cum District and Additional Sessions Judge-VI, Bettiah.
What did the court decide?
Anticipatory bail: petitioner to be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the trial Court within four weeks of the order, on furnishing a bail bond of Rs. 10,000 with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of the learned Special Judge POCSO cum District and Additional Sessions Judge-VI, Bettiah, West Champaran, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.