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2025 Supreme(Pat) 550

SONI SHRIVASTAVA
Abhiram Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioner: M/s Ajay Kumar Thakur, Vaishnavi Singh.
For the Informant : M/s Ansul, Sr. Adv., Shuchi Bharti.
For the State : Mr. Ram Priya Sharan Singh, APP.

ORDER

Heard Mr. Ajay Kumar Thakur, learned counsel for the petitioner, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State and Mr. Ansul, learned senior counsel for the informant.

2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 376, 420, 120(B), 504, 506/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 4 of the Dowry Prohibition Act.

3. The prosecution case, as unfolded in the first information report, indicates that a 36 years old informant (lady), Panchayat Raj Officer, posted at Siwan, lodged the present case against the 32 years old petitioner, who was unemployed then, that they were thrown together during coaching classes three years back and the acquaintance developed into an intimacy, followed by a proposal of marriage by the petitioner. Subsequently, they entered into physical relationship and the informant has alleged that she was sexually exploited on the pretext of marriage, which was subsequently denied by the petitioner.

4. Before going into the merits of the case, the preliminary objection to the grant of anticipatory bail raised by Mr. Ansul, learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of informant, requires to be first ad

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