Patna High Court – Orders
Nafisa Khatoon vs The State Of Bihar on 4 April, 2025
Author: Chandra Prakash Singh
Bench: Chandra Prakash Singh
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.45782 of 2024
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-844 Year-2023 Thana- SITAMARHI District- Sitamarhi
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Nafisa Khatoon W/O - Manjoor Khaliffa R/O Vill.-Boha Tola, Ward No. 9,
P.S.-Sitamarhi , District- Sitamarhi
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
1. The State of Bihar
2. Arun Kumar, S.I. S.H.O., Sitamarhi Police Station, Distt. - Sitamarhi Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Ashok Kumar Jha, Advocate
For the Opposite Party/s : Mrs. Sharda Kumari, APP
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH
SINGH
ORAL ORDER
4 04-04-2025
Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned
Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in
connection with Sitamarhi P.S. Case No. 844 of 2023 dated
08.11.2023 registered for the offences punishable under
Sections 365, 363, 366A, 370, 370A, 373, 376, 120B/34, 372 of
the I.P.C., Sections 3, 4, 5, 6 of the Prevention of Immoral
Trafficking Act, Sections 4 and 6 of the POCSO Act and 75 of
the Juvenile Justice Act.
3. As per the prosecution case, the informant got
information that the business of flesh trading is being run in red
light area, Bohatola. Thereafter, a raiding party was constituted
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and the house of the co-accused Manjoor Khalifa was raided
and from his house, one minor girl and two major girls were
recovered. It is further alleged that one minor girl who belongs
to Patna said that one Rahul Kumar who is the resident of
Darbhanga and was working in Patna on the pretext of marriage
took her to Sitamarhi and sold to the co-accused persons Raja
Khalifa, Manjoor Khalifa, Ramjan Khalifa and Aanchal Devi,
W/O Raja Khalifa for Rs. 9,00,000/- and thereafter they started
doing business of flesh trading from her. Other two girls are
daughters of the Manjoor Khalifa and they said that in the
protection of their father, business of flesh trading is going on in
their house and they are not on fault. It is further alleged that the
informant also recovered one minor girl and two major girls
from the house of the co-accused Raja Khalifa who is the son-
in-law of the co-accused Manjoor Khalifa and on interrogation,
she said that one Raju on the pretext of love marriage took her
to Sitamarhi and sold to the co-accused Raja Khalifa who is the
son-in-law of the Manjoor Khalifa and Meena Khatoon who is
the sister of Manjoor Khalifa one year ago for Rs. 10,00,000/-
thereafter they started doing business of flesh trading from her
and she used to earn Rs. 250/- from per customer which was
being kept by Meena Khatoon. Other two major girls said that
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they are doing business of flesh trading in the protection of the
co-accused Raja Khalifa and Manjoor Khalifa.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted
that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in
this case. The petitioner is a lady and she is made accused in this
case only because she is the wife of the co-accused, Manjoor
Khalifa. Learned counsel has submitted that from the house of
the petitioner three girls have been recovered but two girls are
the daughters of the petitioner and the another girl is the resident
of red light area and was doing the job of maid. The other co-
accused person has already been granted regular bail by this
court vide order dated 24.06.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No.
8910/2024. The victims in their statements recorded u/s 164 of
the Cr.P.C. has not stated anything regarding sexual assault. The
petitioner has two criminal antecedents as stated in para 3 of the
bail petition.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently
opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances
of the case, let the above named petitioner, in the event of his
arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be
enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs.
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20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like
amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court concerned,
Sitamarhi in connection with Sitamarhi P.S. Case No. 844 of
2023, subject to conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of
the Code of Criminal Procedure, with further condition:-
(i). The petitioner is directed to remain physically
present before the learned Court below on each and every date,
failing which on two consecutive dates without reasonable
cause, the bail bonds of the petitioner are liable to be cancelled.
7. The application stands allowed.
(Chandra Prakash Singh, J)
atul/-
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