Ajit Kumar @ Ajit Kumar Yadav @ Ajeet Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.24069 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1276 Year-2023 Thana- PHULWARISHARIF District- Patna ====================================================== Ajit Kumar @ Ajit Kumar Yadav @ Ajeet Kumar S/o Surendra Roy R/o Vill.- Neuri, P.S.- Bihta (Neuri O.P.), District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Usha Kumari Singh, Adv.

For the State :

Mr.Shailendra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NAWNEET KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 19-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Phulwarisharif P.S. Case No. 1276 of 2023, registered for the offences punishable under Section 302/34 of IPC.

3. The informant, who is the widow of the deceased, alleges in her fard beyan that in the morning of the occurrence, the deceased asked his daughter for lukewarm water. After consuming the water, he proceeded from his house. Later, a telephonic information was received that her husband, in injured condition, was lying near the canal. She rushed there and found her husband's dead body. It has been mentioned in the FIR that her husband was addicted to liquor. He had sold his land to the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.24069 of 2025(4) dt.19-09-2025 2/3 petitioner and co-accused Umesh Rai. The informant expressed her suspicion that the petitioner and co-accused Umesh Rai committed murder of her husband.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated. The FIR itself shows that there was no dispute between the petitioner and the deceased or her family members, as such, there is no motive for commission of the alleged occurrence. The name of the petitioner has figured only on the basis of suspicion. Except suspicion, there is nothing against him in the entire case diary. The petitioner is a person of clean antecedent.

5. On the other hand, Mr. Shailendra Kumar, the learned APP for the State has opposed the prayer for bail and submitted that the viscera report disclosed the presence of poisonous substance, to which the learned counsel for the petitioner replied that the petitioner has no concern with that viscera report.

6. Considering the above-mentioned facts and circumstances, let the petitioner, in the event of his arrest or surrender within four weeks before the learned court below, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.24069 of 2025(4) dt.19-09-2025 3/3 each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M.-XIV, Patna in connection with Phulwarisharif P.S. Case No. 1276 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C.

7. The petitioner shall physically appear before the learned court below on each and every date. In case of failure on two consecutive dates, unless he is prevented by extremely adverse circumstances, the learned court below will be at liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioner. (Nawneet Kumar Pandey, J) kundan/- U T