Praveen Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.13343 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-255 Year-2024 Thana- SASARAM MUFFSIL District- Rohtas ====================================================== Praveen Kumar Son of Jitendra Singh Kushwaha Resident of Village- Mahro Khurd, P.S.- Mohania, Distt.- Rohtas ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Arvind Kumar Sinha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Nityanand, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 12-05-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 392, 395 and 412 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has antecedent of one case under the Excise Act and the informant alleges that three unknown accused boarded his auto and after some distance looted the auto along with other articles as detailed in the FIR and fled away after tying the informant.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner was not arrested from the spot as such nothing was recovered from his conscious possession. It is further submitted that during the course of investigation, Raju, Kamlesh Singh

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.13343 of 2025(3) dt.12-05-2025 2/2 and Om Prakash were arrested who disclosed the name of the petitioner. It is next submitted that from perusal of the FIR itself, it would manifest that three accused were involved in the occurrence and all of them were arrested but then the petitioner came to be implicated in the instant case based on their confessional statement when informant does not even remotely suggest that there was fourth accused in the occurrence.

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

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Sasaram Mufassil P.S. Case No. 255 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T