Umesh Prasad v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.11367 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-307 Year-2024 Thana- GOPALPUR District- Patna ====================================================== Umesh Prasad Son of Gaya Prasad Resident of Sabdipur, Singhara, Kopa, P.S. - Bikram, District - Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Madhukar Anand, Adv For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Vinod Shanker Modi, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SOURENDRA PANDEY ORAL ORDER 09-05-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the state.
2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Gopalpur P.S Case No. 307 of 2024 registered for the offence punishable u/s 103, 3(5) of the B.N.S. and Section 27 of the Arms Act and he has clean criminal antecedent.
3. As per the prosecution case, three persons entered the house of the informant and killed her mother. It was further alleged that upon hearing the sound of firing, the informant approached the room of her mother and saw that the petitioner along with his son, namely, Bittu Kumar, and the co-accused Karu @ Pramod was fleeing on a motorcycle.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11367 of 2025(3) dt.09-05-2025 2/3 that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. It is further submitted that the petitioner is the brotherin-law (Shadhu) of one Sanjay Kumar with whom the informant and others are in dispute with regard to the property for which a title suit bearing Title Suit No. 390 of 2022 is pending. It is next submitted that during the course of the investigation, nothing has come to connect the petitioner with the aforesaid crime. It is lastly submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner, in the event of his arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court concerned, Patna, in connection with Gopalpur P.S Case No. 307 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharitya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (B.N.S.S.)
7. The Court below shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in case at any stage it is found
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11367 of 2025(3) dt.09-05-2025 3/3 that the petitioner has concealed his criminal antecedent, the court below shall take step for cancellation of bail bond of the petitioner. However, the acceptance of bail bonds in terms of the above-mentioned order shall not be delayed for purpose of or in the name of verification.
8. The application stands allowed.
(Sourendra Pandey, J) Jyoti/- U T