Rahul Kumar Yadav @ Rahul Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.15016 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-124 Year-2023 Thana- SIMULTALLA District- Jamui ====================================================== Rahul Kumar Yadav @ Rahul Kumar son of Chintu yadav Village- Manikpur Ps- Jasidih Dist- Deoghar Jharkhand ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sheo Kumar Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Sangeeta Sharma, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 11-03-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Simutalla P.S. Case No. 124 of 2023 dated 05.11.2023 registered for the offence punishable under Sections 387, 427/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that some unknown persons demanded extortion of Rs. 20 lakhs from the informant by making several phone calls to him and also threatened to kill him and his family. Again, on 04.01.2023 at 7:30 pm some unknown persons came on two motorcycles and fired towards the house of the informant and thereafter made a call on mobile of the informant to pay Rs. 5 lakhs at once and rest within ten days.

4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.15016 of 2024(2) dt.11-03-2024 2/2 case. The petitioner is not named in the F.I.R.. Only on the basis of his confessional statement he has been made accused in this case. It is submitted that no incriminating article has been recovered from the possession of the petitioner. The petitioner has no concern with the alleged mobile numbers which were used in the said crime. During the investigation, nothing has come against the petitioner except suspicion. Lastly, it has been submitted that the petitioner is in custody since 15.11.2023, having no criminal antecedent and charge-sheet has been submitted in the case.

5. Learned A.P.P for the State opposes the prayer for bail of the petitioner.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, let the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate-Ist Class, Jamui in connection with Simutalla P.S. Case No. 124 of 2023.

(Khatim Reza, J) prabhat/- U