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Patna High CourtCR. MISC./27117/2023bail granted

Mukesh Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

2023-07-20Mr. Justice Satyavrat Verma3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27117 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-951 Year-2022 Thana- GOPALGANJ TOWN DistrictGopalganj ====================================================== 1.

MUKESH KUMAR SINGH Son of Surendra Singh Resident of villageKakarkund, P.S.-Gopalganj, District-Gopalganj 2.

JITENDRA KUMAR SINGH Son of Surendra Singh Resident of villageKakarkund, P.S.-Gopalganj, District-Gopalganj ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Naresh Chandra Verma, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Narendra Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 20-07-2023

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 324, 307, 504, 379, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that on account of dispute relating to land, an altercation took place in which six named accused persons including the petitioners came and started abusing him, it is next alleged that petitioner no. 2 assaulted the informant with spade causing injury on his head and thereafter he fell down when all the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27117 of 2023(2) dt.20-07-2023 2/3 accused assaulted him with lathi and danda, it is next alleged that when Sikandar Singh and Rita Devi came to rescue, all the accused persons assaulted them also, further, petitioner no. 1 dashed the wife of the informant and assaulted her on which she became semi-naked and Anika Devi snatched chain of the wife of the informant.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the present case, it is next submitted that no doubt it is alleged that petitioner no. 2 assaulted the informant on head causing injury, but then from perusal of the injury report, it would manifest that the injury on head is simple in nature, though one of the injuries suffered by the informant i.e. removing of nail is said to be grievous but then i.e. on non-vital part of the body, it is further submitted that one of the injuries of the informant's brother is also said to be grievous but then i.e. swelling and the said portion is also not vital part of the body, it is further submitted that there is admitted land dispute between the parties and both the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27117 of 2023(2) dt.20-07-2023 3/3 counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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) each 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 Gopalganj Town P.S. Case No. 951 of 2022 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T