Santosh Singh @ Santosh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.19837 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-150 Year-2022 Thana- PATAHI District- East Champaran ====================================================== Santosh Singh @ Santosh Kumar S/O Ram Naresh Singh R/O Village- Jihuli, P.S- Patahi, Distt.- East Champaran.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner :
Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Advocate For the State :
Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 19-04-2025 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and learned A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 302, 308 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. As per prosecution case, it is alleged that this petitioner, along with co-accused person, administered poison to husband of informant and consequently, he died.
4. It is submitted by learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner that petitioner is quite innocent and has committed no offence. The medical report does not support the prosecution case and the doctor has not found any poisonous substance in body of the deceased. It is further submitted that similarly situated co-accused person, namely Anamika Singh,
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19837 of 2025(2) dt.19-04-2025 2/2 having similar and identical allegations, has already been granted the privilege of anticipatory bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Hon'ble Court vide order dated 14.11.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 56133 of 2024. Petitioner claims clean antecedents.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
6. Considering the nature of accusation, claim based on parity and clean antecedents of the petitioner, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner is allowed.
7. Accordingly, in the event of arrest/surrender within a period of eight weeks from today, let the above named petitioner be enlarged 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 Sessions Judge, East Champaran, Motihari in connection with Patahi P.S. Case No. 150 of 2022, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S..
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) shashank/- U T