Mantu Sharma @ Pradyuman Kumar Sharma v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.18231 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-614 Year-2023 Thana- MUZAFFARPUR TOWN DistrictMuzaffarpur ====================================================== Mantu Sharma @ Pradyuman Kumar Sharma, Male, aged about 54 years, S/O- Late Ram Kishor Sharma, R/O- Village- Bahlolpur, P.S.- Parsa, Dist.- Saran at Chapra.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Kumar Harshvardhan, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Parmanand Prasad, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAMESH CHAND MALVIYA ORAL ORDER 12-03-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner is in custody in connection with Muzaffarpur Town P.S. Case No. 614 of 2023 registered for an offence punishable under Sections 302, 307, 379 and 120(B)/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act.
3. As per FIR, on 21.07.2023 in the evening the coaccused Vikrant Kumar Shukla called the husband of the informant and on this call her husband departed from his house by a Scorpio with three personal bodyguards and driver, in the same night, she got information that her husband killed in the house of co-accused Quasim Hassan @ Dollar along with his
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18231 of 2024(2) dt.12-03-2024 2/3 three bodyguards by the accused persons. Thereafter personal guards were taken to hospital but they also died during course of treatment.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case. He submits that the name of the petitioner has transpired on the basis of confessional statement of co-accused Vikrant Kumar Shukla @ Vikku Shukla and similarly situated co-accused persons have already been granted bail by a Co-ordinate Benches of this Court passed in Cr. Misc. Nos.79072 of 2023 and 71355 of 2019 and also co-accused Sheru Ahmad has already been granted bail by this Court passed in Cr. Misc. No. 11806 of 2024. Petitioner is in custody since 05.08.2023
5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts of the case as well as the fact that the informant is not an eye witness to the alleged occurrence and the petitioner has been implicated in this only on the basis of suspicion, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned CJM, Muzaffarpur in connection with
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.18231 of 2024(2) dt.12-03-2024 3/3 Muzaffarpur Town P.S. Case No. 614 of 2023 with condition that the petitioner shall fully cooperate with the investigation/trial of the case, failing which the court below shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bond of the petitioner. (Ramesh Chand Malviya, J) Brajesh Kumar/- U