Uday Yadav v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.7378 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-255 Year-2023 Thana- SULTANGANJ District- Bhagalpur ====================================================== Uday Yadav S/o- Mohan Yadav R/Vill- Mirhatti PS-Sultanganj DistBhagalpur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Rajive Ranjan Singh For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Binod Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 07-03-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. This application, for grant of regular bail, arises out of Sultanganj Police Station Case No. 255 of 2023, disclosing offences under Section 302, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. As per FIR, the petitioners and other co-accused persons went to the house of the informant and took her husband along with them to the field for cooking meat, fish and drinking but he did not return in the night. The informant got to know in the morning that her husband died near a heater kept on the land.
4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case due to village politics. Learned counsel further submits that the informant is
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.7378 of 2025(3) dt.07-03-2025 2/3 not the eye-witness of the occurrence rather when she reached at the place of occurrence, she saw her husband lying dead. He next submits that Investigating Officer has clearly stated that the deceased died due to asphyxia and shock caused due to contact with electric wire. Learned counsel next submits that similarly situated co-accused persons has been granted anticipatory bail by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court in Cr. Misc. No. 25431 of 2024 and analogous case and Cr. Misc. No. 67428 of 2024 vide order dated 18.09.2024 and 23.10.2024. The petitioner is in custody since 11.11.2024.
5. Regards being had to the submissions made by the parties and taking into consideration the fact that similarly situated co-accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by Co-ordinate Bench of this Court, accordingly, I am inclined to grant regular bail to the petitioner.
6. This application is, accordingly, allowed.
7. Let the petitioner, above named, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate 1st, Bhagalpur in connection to the Sultanganj Police Station Case No. 255 of 2023.
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8. This is subject to the condition that the petitioner shall present himself before the police/Court, as the case may be, as and when required and in the event of failure on his part to appear before the Court on two consecutive occasions, his bail bond shall be liable to be cancelled.
(Anil Kumar Sinha, J) HarshPandey/- U T