Gautam Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.30765 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-313 Year-2021 Thana- KASIMBAZAR District- Munger ====================================================== GAUTAM KUMAR S/o Sanjay Sharma R/o village- Shyampur, P.S.- Kotwali, District- Munger ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Kumar Kamal Nayan, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Lalan Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 08-09-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

Let the defect(s), if any, as pointed out by the office, be removed within four weeks.

The case is registered under Section 302/120(B)/43 of IPC and Section 27 of Arms Act, in connection with G.R. No. 2523/2021( arising out of Kasim Bazar P.S. Case No. 313 of 2021.

As per the prosecution story, the deceased Deepika Sharma was married to Ravi Kumar and it is alleged that due to firearm injury, her left hand was not working properly and as such she was not liked by her in-laws. Further, she was an eyewitness to the murder of her mother by relatives of in-laws and they were pressurizing her not to stand as a witness to the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.30765 of 2022(2) dt.08-09-2022 2/2 said case which she had repeatedly refused. Accordingly, it has been alleged that the in-laws planned and executed the murder of the informant's daughter.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that his name has cropped up in the confessional statement and he confessed before the police that he along with co-accused Patlu @ Amardeep were assigned the job of killing the lady Deepika Sharma and on the fateful day Patlu @ Amardeep opened fire killing the lady.

Considering the aforesaid statement that has emanated in course of the investigation against the petitioner herein, this Court for the present is not inclined to grant him the privilege of bail which is accordingly rejected.

(Rajiv Roy, J) Ravi/Ajay Singh U T