Santosh Kumar Singh And ORS v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.41910 of 2016 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -22 Year- 2016 Thana -PURANHIA District- SHEOHAR ======================================================

1. Santosh Kumar Singh Son of Shiv Shankar Singhg Resident of Village - Abhirajpur Bairiya, P.S- Piparahi, District - Sheohar.

2. Giridhar Narain Rai Son of Late Bijhan Rai

3. Shashibhushan Yadav @ Gudd Son of Giridhar Narain Rai

4. Ravindra Rai son of Mahadev Rai.

5. Dharamdera Paswan Son of kapildeo Paswan Sl. no 2 To 5 are Resident of Village -Ashopur, P.S- Piparahi, District - Sheohar. .... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sunil Kumar Alias Sharma For the Opposite Party/s : Sri Ram Anurag Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER 20-10-2016 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

This application for grant of anticipatory bail arises out of Puranahiya P.S. Case No. 22 of 2016, disclosing offences under Sections 147, 148,149, 447, 448,323,324,307,354,380,504 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act. The political rivalry during and after last Panchayat Polls is the reason behind the occurrence, which is said to have taken place for which case and counter case have been filed. One of the accused of the present Puranahiya P.S. Case No. 22 of 2016 has filed another FIR being Puranahiya P.S. Case No. 21 of 2016. Learned counsel for the petitioners has submitted that

though there is allegation of opening fire against the accused persons, there is no such allegation against the present petitioners. Apparently, there is no allegation of any fire arm injury received by any one.

Considering the above, this application is allowed. Let the petitioners above named in the event of their arrest/surrender within four weeks from today in the Court below be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sheohar in Puranahiya P. S. Case No. 22 of 2016, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. This is subject to the condition that the petitioners shall present themselves before the police/Court as the case may be, as and when required and in the event of failure on their part to appear before the Court on two consecutive occasions, their bail bonds shall be liable to be cancelled.

(Chakradhari Sharan Singh, J) ArunKumar/-c U