Patna High CourtCR. MISC./5672/2025bail granted

Ram Ayodhya Chauhan @ Bholi Chauhan v. The State Of Bihar

2025-03-22Mr. Justice Khatim Reza2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.5672 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-56 Year-2024 Thana- NTPC KHAIRA District- Aurangabad ====================================================== Ram Ayodhya Chauhan @ Bholi Chauhan, aged about 35 years, Male, S/O Bhagwan Chauhan, R/O Village- Tetariya, P.S.- Nabingar, Dist.- Aurangabad. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Pramendra Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ahmad Ali, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 22-03-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with NTPC Khaira PS Case No.56 of 2024 dated 20.09.2024, instituted for the offence punishable under Section 310(2) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The prosecution case, in brief, is that on the alleged date of occurrence 10-12 unknown persons alleged to have forcibly taken three batteries, 600 litres diesel and one drum on the point of pistol from the campus of ADS Company.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case. FIR is against unknown. The petitioner has been made accused on the basis of confessional statement of Akash Kumar

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.5672 of 2025(3) dt.22-03-2025 2/2 and it has been alleged that 150 litres diesel was recovered from the house of the petitioner kept in three containers. Learned counsel further submits that the petitioner is a bonafide purchaser of the diesel in question. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioner is in custody since 02.10.2024 having clean antecedents.

5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, let the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad, in NTPC Khaira PS Case No.56 of 2024.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Khatim Reza, J) J. Alam/- U T