Vikash Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.25850 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-197 Year-2024 Thana- GAYA MUFASIL District- Gaya ====================================================== Vikash Manjhi Son of Doman Manjhi R/o Village - Gora Dhankuti, P.S. - Mufassil, Distt. - Gaya.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Pintu Kumar Patel, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Mohammad Sufyan, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 24-07-2026 Heard Mr. Pintu Kumar Patel, learned Advocate for the petitioner and Mr. Mohammad Sufyan, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 197 of 2024, registered for the offenses punishable under Sections 341, 323, 447, 307, 504, 427, 436, 504/34 of the I.P.C.

3. The allegation against the petitioner is of causing assault to the informant over his head due to which he sustained serious injuries, besides there is further allegation of lighting the house on fire.

4. Learned Advocate for the petitioner submits that besides the allegations leveled against the petitioner is omnibus is nature, during the course of investigation no material has come which suggests that the petitioner has lit the house on fire.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25850 of 2026(4) dt.24-07-2026 2/3 The injury which is said to have been caused by the petitioner along with his wife, is nothing, but an abrasion on frontal region of scalp, which is reported to be simple in nature. Though the petitioner is carrying two criminal antecedents, however, both the cases arising out of the same incidence and now, the petitioner is on bail in both the cases.

5. On the other hand, learned Advocate for the State vehemently opposed the bail application and submits that the petitioner has assaulted over the vital part of the body, though the informant was fortunate enough that he did not receive serious injury.

6. Having regard to the submissions advanced by the learned Advocate for the respective parties and taking note of the genesis of the occurrence, coupled with the simple nature of injuries, besides during the course of investigation, no material has surfaced which supported the allegation of lighting the house on fire, let the petitioner above named be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25850 of 2026(4) dt.24-07-2026 3/3 Magistrate, Gaya ji in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 197 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, with the further condition that one of the bailors shall be the own/close family members of the petitioner.

(Harish Kumar, J) siddharth/- U T