Patna High CourtCR. MISC./14388/2025bail rejected

Nikesh Ram @ Nikesh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2025-06-23Mr. Justice Chandra Prakash Singh2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14388 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-416 Year-2024 Thana- RIGA District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== Nikesh Ram @ Nikesh Kumar S/O Late Kailash Ram R/O village - Sirahi, ward no.-14, P.S.- Riga, Dist.- Sitamarhi ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Santosh Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Rabindra Kumar For the Informant :

Mr. Vivek Kumar Pandey ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 23-06-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the Informant as well as learned A.P.P for the State.

2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in connection with Riga P.S. Case No. 416 of 2024 dated 30.11.2024 registered for the offences punishable u/ss 103, 61, 238 read with section 3(5) of the BNS.

3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner took the informant's son with him and thereafter the dead body of the informant's son was found near a bridge.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. There is no eyewitness to the alleged occurrence. The petitioner has clean antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.14388 of 2025(3) dt.23-06-2025 2/2 petition. The petitioner is in custody since 02.12.2024.

5. Learned counsel for the informant as well as learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner. As per para 28 of the case diary, the petitioner himself confessed that he killed the informant's son by inflicting knife blow and the weapon used in the said crime was recovered at the instances of the petitioner.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the specific and heinous nature of allegation against the petitioner, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail.

7. The application stands rejected.

8. The learned trial court is directed to expedite the trial and conclude the same within a period of nine months. (Chandra Prakash Singh, J) guddukr/- U T