(1.) The petitioner, incarcerating upon his arrest in the FIR captioned above, came up before this Court under Sec. 439 of Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (CrPC) seeking bail.
(2.) In paragraph 10 of the bail petition, the accused declares that he has no criminal antecedents.
(3.) On May 23, 2021, the complainant informed the police that his brother's son aged 12 years, had been kidnapped and a ransom of Rs. fifty thousand was demanded for safe release. On a frantic search, the police recovered the boy unharmed, from a slum, and arrested the accused including the petitioner.