Dhirendra Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.3481 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-501 Year-2025 Thana- DHANARUA District- Patna ====================================================== 1.
Dhirendra Kumar, Son of Lala Prasad, Resident of Village- Deochand Vigha PS- Dhanarua District -Patna.
2.
Saheb Kumar, Son of Nageshwar Prasad, Resident of Village- Deochand Vigha PS- Dhanarua District -Patna.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Upendra Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Anand Kishore Choudhary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 28-01-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. The petitioners have preferred this application for grant of anticipatory bail apprehending their arrest in connection with Dhanarua P.S. Case no.501 of 2025, registered under sections 109(1), 115(2), 126(2), 351(2), 352 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and section 27 of the Arms Act.
3. As per the prosecution case, the informant states that as a result of prior dispute between the parties, the four named accused persons including the two petitioners herein as also four unknown accused persons came to the informant's house and started to hurl abuses. It is further stated that they started pelting bricks and stones and thereafter the petitioners
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3481 of 2026(2) dt.28-01-2026 2/3 herein as also one Satendra Prasad resorted to indiscriminate firing with a pistol.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the case as a result of prior dispute between the parties which is evident from the contents of the F.I.R. itself. Besides the allegations being general and omnibus in nature, no person was injured in the entire occurrence nor any incriminating article recovered from the place of occurrence. The petitioners undertake to cooperate in the investigation/trial.
5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.
6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and having perused the contents of the F.I.R., taking into consideration the admitted dispute between the parties and especially no person having been injured in the entire occurrence, it is directed that both the petitioners above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Dhanarua P.S. Case no.501 of 2025 on each of them furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3481 of 2026(2) dt.28-01-2026 3/3 satisfaction of the learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Masaurhi, Patna.
(Partha Sarthy, J) avinash/- U T