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

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL APPEAL (SJ) No.794 of 2020 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-531 Year-2018 Thana- SHEKHPURA District- Sheikhpura ====================================================== 1.

RANJIT YADAV @ RANJIT KUMAR YADAV, S/o Puna Yadav, R/o Village Akona, P.S. Sheikhpura (Sirari O.P.), District Sheikhpura. 2.

Kanahiya Yadav, S/O Sadhu Yadav, R/o Village Akona, P.S. Sheikhpura (Sirari O.P.), District Sheikhpura.

... ... Appellant/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Appellant/s :

Mr.Ajit Kumar, Adv.

For the Respondent/s :

Mr.Binay Krishna, Spl. P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 08-03-2021 Heard both sides.

The appellants filed this appeal under Section 14A(2) of the SC/ST (POA) Act against the order dated 03.01.2020 passed in A.B.P. No. 649/2019 by the learned 1st Addl. District & Sessions Judge, Sheikhpura, by which the anticipatory bail petition of the appellants was rejected in Sheikhpura (Sirari O.P.) P.S. Case No. 531/2018 registered under Sections 341, 323, 354, 506, 380/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3(1)(x) of the SC/ST Act.

Learned counsel for the appellants submits that there is omnibus allegation against the appellants and others that they entered into the house of the informant and abused and assaulted the informant but similarly situated co-accused persons, namely,

Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.794 of 2020(3) dt.08-03-2021 2/2 Shrawan Yadav and Puna Yadav have already been granted anticipatory bail by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 05.09.2019 passed in Cr. Appeal (SJ) No. 3195/2019. The case of the appellants stands on the same footing. Learned Special P.P. could not dispute the facts. Having considered the facts that similarly situated coaccused persons have already been granted anticipatory bail, the appeal is allowed. The order dated 03.01.2020 passed in A.B.P. No. 649/2019 by the learned 1st Addl. District & Sessions Judge, Sheikhpura is set aside.

Appellants, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of the order, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned 1st Addl. District & Sessions Judge, Sheikhpura in connection with Sheikhpur (Sirari O.P.) P.S. Case No. 531/2018, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.

(Prabhat Kumar Jha, J) rakhi/- U T