Bijul Ray @ Vijul Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.16586 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-671 Year-2025 Thana- BIDUPUR District- Vaishali ====================================================== 1.
Bijul Ray @ Vijul Singh S/O Late Rai Saheb Rai R/O Vill.- Rahimapur, P.s.- Bidupur, Dist.- Vaishali.
2.
Deni Rai @ Nagendra singh @ Teni singh S/O Late Rai Saheb Rai S/O Late Rai Saheb Rai ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Rajeev Ranjan Sinha, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Aditya Narayan Singh.1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 24-06-2026 Heard Mr. Rajeev Ranjan Sinha, learned Advocate for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Bidupur P.S. Case No. 671 of 2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 117(2), 109, 76, 352, 351(2), 303(2), 3(5) of the BNS.
3. Allegedly on the given date and time of occurrence, when the informant reached to the place of occurrence after hearing screaming of his uncle, he found his hands and legs tied and was bleeding profusely. The injured uncle of the informant has disclosed that it is Bijul Rai and Birendra Rai along with 1012 unknown persons, who brutally assaulted him. 4.Learned Advocate for the petitioners submitted that prior to the institution of the present case, the petitioner no. 1
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.16586 of 2026(4) dt.24-06-2026 2/3 had instituted Bidupur P.S. Case No. 569 of 2025 against the informant and his uncle and the present case is nothing but offshoot of the earlier case. The allegation in some and substance has been levelled against 10-12 unknown persons but only in order to settle the score specific accusation has been levelled against the petitioner, who had earlier lodged the FIR. The informant is not an eye witness to the alleged occurrence and with respect to an occurrence which took place on 23.11.2023, the present FIR came to be instituted on 24.11.2025. It is submitted that till date even the statement of the injured witness has not been recorded by the police.
5. On the other hand, learned Advocate for the State vehemently opposed the bail application and submitted that there is specific accusation against petitioner no. 1 that he along with Birendra Rai has brutally assaulted the informant's uncle by means of spade and the injury report also corroborated the same. Referring to the injury report, he further submits that the injured has sustained two incised injury over the parietal region and on the left leg. The petitioner no. 1 bears two criminal antecedent whereas petitioner no. 2 is carrying one criminal antecedent.
6. Having considered the submissions advanced by
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.16586 of 2026(4) dt.24-06-2026 3/3 the learned Advocates for the respective parties and taking note of the specific accusation against petitioner no. 1 that he assaulted the informant by means of spade, which is also corroborated with the injury report, besides two criminal antecedents, this Court is not persuaded to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to petitioner no. 1. Accordingly, prayer for anticipatory bail of petitioner no. 1 stands rejected.
7. So far petitioner no. 2 is concerned, considering the general and omnibus nature of allegation against him, let the petitioner no. 2 abovenamed 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Vaishali at Hajipur/concerned court in connection with Bidupur P.S. Case No. 671 of 2025, 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 no. 2.
(Harish Kumar, J) Anjani/- U T