CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER

4 21-01-2026 Heard Ms. Pooja Prasad, learned Advocate for the petitioner and Mr. Satyendra Narain Singh, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Alamnagar P.S. Case No. 154 of 2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 137(2), 140(3), 96, 3(5) of the BNS.

3. Allegedly, in the morning of the fateful day, while the informant’s daughter was going for tuition, in the meanwhile, all the FIR named accused persons, including the petitioner along with three unknown persons came on a four- wheeler vehicle. All the accused persons forcibly kidnapped her and got her seated on the said vehicle on the point of pistol and manged to flee away. During the course of search, the informant came to know that after kidnapping, his daughter was kept in the house of this petitioner and thereafter she was taken away on different places.

4. Learned Advocate for the petitioner referring to the FIR contended that surprisingly the alleged occurrence took place on 08.05.2025 but the FIR came to be instituted on 12.05.2025. Had the informant known this fact that his daughter