Vikash Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.4035 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-444 Year-2025 Thana- MANER District- Patna ====================================================== Vikash Kumar Son of Bindeshwar Rai @ Bineshwar Rai Resident of VillageNaya Tola (Naga Tola) Goriyasthan, P.S.- Maner, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ghanshyam Tiwary, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Choubey Jawahar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRAVEEN KUMAR ORAL ORDER 06-04-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 444 of 2025, registered for the offence under Sections 115(2), 126(2), 109, 352, 351(2) of the Bhartiya Nayay Sanhita.

3. It is alleged that on 20.06.2025 at about 5.00 hours when the informant was travelling in a boat in connection with the irrigation of his field, Vikash Kumar who was also travelling in the same boat on altercation with the informant, the said Vikash Kumar took out a knife and inflicted a knife blow in the abdomen of the informant, thereafter, the petitioner came to be apprehended.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.4035 of 2026(3) dt.06-04-2026 2/2 there was no premeditation to kill and on a sudden altercation the petitioner has inflicted one knife blow although without repetition. The injury report was called for earlier by this Court and the same would go to suggest that there was no evidence of bone injury and the injury report suggests simple injury on the person of the informant, moreover, the charge-sheet has been filed in this case and there is no allegation of tampering and petitioner is in custody since 22.06.2025, having no criminal antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State vehemently opposed the prayer for regular bail of the petitioner.

6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let the, above named, petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional District and Sessions Judge-V, Danapur, Patna, in connection with Maner P.S. Case No. 444 of 2025. (Praveen Kumar, J) khushbu/- U T