Akhilesh Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.1727 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-247 Year-2025 Thana- BODHGAYA District- Gaya ====================================================== Akhilesh Manjhi S/O Pragash Manjhi @ Prakash Manjhi R/O Village - Budhaul (Hardiya Nagar), P.S- Bodh Gaya, District -Gaya. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Brijmohan Das, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Ma. Pushpa Sinha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-02-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 117(2), 109, 74, 351(2), 352 and 3(5) of B.N.S., 2023.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case and the informant alleges that he along with his family members went to see a dance programme managed by petitioner, further, petitioner objected why they were seeing the programme for free and thereafter started assaulting Lali Manjhi by spade causing injury on his left hand, finger and head, further, Kamlesh Manjhi, Awadhesh Manjhi and Vikram Manjhi assaulted Anil Manjhi, Karu Manjhi, Satiya Devi and Ushri Devi with Lathi and rod and acted
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.1727 of 2026(2) dt.10-02-2026 2/3 inappropriately.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that from perusal of the allegations, as alleged in the FIR, it would manifest that informant alleges that he had gone to see a programme organized by petitioner and when petitioner objected that why they were seeing the programme for free, the occurrence is alleged to have taken place. It is submitted that since the informant and his side had forcefully entered for seeing the programme without ticket, as such, an altercation took place in which both sides assaulted each other. It is also submitted that the injury suffered by the injured alleged to have been assaulted by the petitioner has been opined to be simple in nature, as would manifest from Annexure-3 to the anticipatory bail application.
5. Learned APP for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let petitioner, abovenamed, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.1727 of 2026(2) dt.10-02-2026 3/3 bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Bodh Gaya P.S. Case No.247 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T