Sidheshwar Kumar @ Sidhu v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.22081 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-408 Year-2022 Thana- NARDIGANJ District- Nawada ====================================================== SIDHESHWAR KUMAR @ SIDHU son of Rambilash Chauhan VillageKhedu Bigha Ps- Nardiganj Dist- Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Arjun Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ram Anurag Singh, APP For the Informant :

Mr. Surendra Kumar Singh, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 11-07-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State along with learned counsel for the informant. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 324, 307, 379, 504 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that on account of dispute relating to irrigating of field, an altercation took place and the accused persons along with petitioner came to his house armed with lathi, Khanti etc. and on orders of Sampatiya Devi, accused Ranjit assaulted him with Khanti causing injury on head, thereafter all the accused pelted stone and looted Rs. 50,800/-.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case, it is next submitted that from bare perusal of the allegation as

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22081 of 2023(2) dt.11-07-2023 2/2 alleged in the F.I.R., it would manifest that there is specific allegation of assault against Ranjit and there is no specific allegation against the petitioner except the fact that he was also a member of an unlawful assembly.

Learned A.P.P. for the State along with learned counsel for the informant opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner, but are not in a position to rebut the submissions of the learned counsel for the petitioner that there is no specific allegation of assault against the petitioner. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Nardiganj P.S. Case No. 408 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T