Panchanand Sah v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.5756 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-180 Year-2025 Thana- YADOPUR District- Gopalganj ====================================================== Panchanand Sah, Aged about 52 years, (M), S/o Late Shivpujan Sah, Resident of Village- Hirapakad, P.S.- Jadopur, District- Gopalganj ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Dharmveer, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Rajendra Nath Jha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAMESH CHAND MALVIYA ORAL ORDER 04-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(2), 109, 351(2), 352 and 3(5) of BNS.

3. As per allegation in the FIR, the petitioner along with other co-accused have assaulted by means of lathi on the head of the wife of the informant, as a result of which she sustained head injuries.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case. He next submits that the petitioner and the informant are own brothers and reside adjacent to each other, with an ongoing dispute for boundary wall between them and there is case and counter case

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.5756 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 2/2 between them. He next submits that the injury caused on the person of the informant side which is simple in nature. Petitioner has got clean antecedent as stated in para-3 of the petition.

5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. In view of the aforesaid circumstances as also the fact that there is case and counter case between the parties and both the parties were injured in which only one person from the informant side had received simple injury, so I am inclined to grant anticipatory bail to above-named petitioner. Let the abovenamed petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the trial Court within a period of six weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to satisfaction of the learned ACJM-X, Gopalganj in connection with Yadopur P.S. Case No. 180 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. (Ramesh Chand Malviya, J) Brajesh Kumar/- U T