Jagdish Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.7128 of 2016 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -39 Year- 2015 Thana -KHUTAUNA District- MADHUBANI ======================================================

1. Jagdish Singh, S/o Late Shobha Singh, Resident of Village- Hanuman Nagar, P.S.- Khutauna District- Madhubani.

.... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Dileep Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ram Shankar Das(App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 17-02-2016 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State.

The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 354, 403, 406 of the Indian Penal Code and 3(1) (x) of the S.C./S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The prosecution case is that the informant being a lady of Scheduled Caste holds Ration Card. The informant went to the house of the petitioner to receive ration for the month of April and May, 2014 but the petitioner gave grains for the same month. When the informant asked to make supply then she was being abused by calling caste name. It is further alleged that the informant further along with her daughter- in- law Shiv Kumari went to the house of the petitioner, but both of

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7128 of 2016 (2) dt.17-02-2016 them were abused and pushed down on the ground, as a result the bangles broken.

It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that for a petty dispute accusation has been levelled and the informant has retracted from the initial version and filed a petition to that effect before learned court below. For the occurrence of 02.03.2015 the complaint was filed on 07.04.2015 which came to be registered as police case on 10.05.2015.

Considering the delayed lodging of the case, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sri Denesh Kumar, J.M., Ist Class, Jhanjharpur, Madhubani in connection with Khutauna P.S. Case No. 39 of 2015, subject to conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

(Dinesh Kumar Singh, J) P.K./- U T