CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER

5 18-12-2025 Heard Mr. Dhaneshwar Prasad Gupta, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Nokha P.S Case No. 196 of 2024 registered under sections 366A and 34 of IPC lodged on 27.05.2024 by the informant, Gango Devi.

3. As per the prosecution story, the informant alleged that her daughter aged about 16 years went missing and the peti- tioner is said to be involved in the kidnapping. This led to the FIR.

4. Notices were issued to the opposite party no. 2 and case diary as well as statement of victim recorded under Section

183 BNSS was also called for by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 16.07.2025. From the record, it seems that the notice has been received by the mother of the opposite party no. 2. Despite valid service of notice, none has appeared before this Court. The case diary has also come alongwith the statement of the victim recorded under Section 183 BNSS on 15.07.2024, according to which she claimed that the victim had gone at her own maternal grand-mother's house situated at Sasaram and she took her neighbour, brotherly figure