Ranjit Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7132 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-330 Year-2025 Thana- NARDIGANJ District- Nawada ====================================================== Ranjit Kumar Son of Suresh Mahto Resident of Village- Buchchi, P.S.- Nardiganj, District- Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. N. K. Agrawal- Sr. Advocate Mr. Birendra Kumar- Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Yogendra Kumar- A.P.P.
Mr. Vijay Kumar-Adv. For informant ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 16-02-2026
1. Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner, learned APP for the State and the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant.
2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 127(2), 118(1), 115(2), 110, 191(1), 192, 190 of the B.N.S.
3. The learned senior counsel for the petitioner submits that earlier Mithun Kumar along with four others had approached this Court seeking anticipatory bail by filing Cr. Misc. No.4571 of 2026 and the same came to be allowed by an order dated 02.02.2026 after considering the
2/4 case in detail and on merits. It is also submitted that thereafter, Anuj Kumar along with three others also approached this Court seeking anticipatory bail by filing Cr. Misc. No.4666 of 2026 and the same also came to be allowed by an order dated 02.02.2026. It is further submitted that no doubt, in the FIR, it is alleged that petitioner assaulted the informant by garasa causing injury on head, but then, the injury suffered by the injured has been opined to be simple in nature as would manifest from Annexure-5 to the supplementary affidavit.
4. It is next submitted that from the side of the petitioner also Nadriganj P. S. Case No. 329 of 2025 was instituted against the informant and his side in which it is alleged that informant along with others had brutally assaulted Bittu Kumar. It is further submitted that injury report of Bittu was annexed as Annexure-4 in Cr. Misc. No.4571 of 2026 and is also annexed as Annexure-6 to the supplementary affidavit in the instant case and from perusal of the same, it would manifest that the injury suffered by Bittu Kumar has been opined to be grievous caused by hard and blunt object.
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5. The learned senior counsel for the petitioner next submits that petitioner has passed his B. Sc. Physics (Honours) and is not a criminal and if he sent to judicial custody, his entire career would get jeopardized and chances are bright that he may come in contact with hardened criminal. It is reiterated and submitted that the injury suffered by the informant has opined to be simple when injury of Bittu has been opined to be grievous and that blow is not repeated.
6. Learned A.P.P. as well as the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant opposes the anticipatory bail application, but then, are not in a position to rebut the submission of the learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner that the injury suffered by the informant has been opined to be simple and the blow is not alleged to be repeated.
7. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties and also taking into consideration the submissions made by the learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner, the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks, is directed
4/4 to be released on bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum 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 Nardiganj P. S. Case No.330 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
8. The application stands allowed.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T