Chhotu Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.61583 of 2017 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-90 Year-2017 Thana- KUDRA District- Bhabhua (Kaimur) ====================================================== Chhotu Singh S/o Ashok Singh, R/o Village- Chaita Mohalla, P.S.- Kudra, District- Kaimur (Bhabua).

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Kumar Sunil, Adv.

For the State :

Mr. J. N. Thakur, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 20-12-2017 Heard learned Counsels for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 354, 379, 504 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. Prosecution case is that while the informant was returning from his sister's husband's house, the accused persons surrounded him abused and assaulted with fists and slaps. The accused persons tore the blouse of the informant's sister. It is also alleged that co-accused Vikash Kumar snatched gold chain while the co-accused Manish Kumar Singh took out Rs.10000/- from the pocket of the informant. It is alleged against this petitioner that he snatched a gold earring from the sister of the informant.

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.61583 of 2017(2) dt.20-12-2017 2/2 It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has been roped in as an accused in the present case, since the petitioner is the agnate of the brother-in-law of the informant. The petitioner is also an accused in other case, but he is on bail. Moreover, co-accused Manish Singh and Vikash Singh have been granted regular bail by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide Criminal Miscellaneous No.38362 of 2017.

Considering the nature of accusation in the background of land dispute and accusation being omnibus and general, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Kaimur (Bhabua), in connection with Kudra P.S. Case No. 90 of 2017, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Dinesh Kumar Singh, J) Ashwini/- U T