Sanjit Ram v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.23048 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-4 Year-2015 Thana- SARAI District- Vaishali ====================================================== Sanjit Ram Son of Late Mahadev Ram Resident of Village - Borha/ Fahabad, P.S. - Sarai, District - Vaishali at Hajipur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Niranjan Parihar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Gauri Shankar Gupta, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DR. ANSHUMAN ORAL ORDER 02-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in connection with Sarai P.S. Case No. 04 of 2015, dated 08.01.2015, lodged under Sections 342, 323, 308, 379, 504, 506 & 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. As per the prosecution, FIR has been lodged against three named accused persons, including the present petitioner, alleging that all the accused persons stopped the informant while he was going to the bank to deposit money and started demanding Rs. 2,000/- as extortion. Upon opposition, all the accused persons assaulted the informant and snatched Rs. 15,000/- and a gold chain.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23048 of 2025(3) dt.02-07-2025 2/2

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence. Counsel further submits that the antecedents of the petitioner are clean. Counsel further submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case due to dirty village politics.

5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail of the petitioner and submits that there is a direct allegation of a knife blow against the petitioner and that it is the petitioner who snatched Rs. 15,000/- from the informant's pocket.

6. In the present facts and circumstances, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is hereby rejected.

7. It is directed to the petitioner to surrender before the Trial Court within a period of 6 weeks from today. In case, the petitioner surrenders within six weeks, then the Trial Court is directed to pass order on his surrender-cum-bail application on the same day without being prejudice that the anticipatory bail of the petitioner has been rejected by this Court and the Trial Court shall pass order on the merit of this case. (Dr. Anshuman, J.) Aman Kumar/- U T