Ravi Ranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.38953 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-457 Year-2023 Thana- CHAKIA District- East Champaran ====================================================== 1.

Ravi Ranjan Kumar, S/o Surendra Thakur, R/V- Sekhi Chakia, P.S.. Chakiya, District- Motihari 2.

Niharika Kumari @ Mithu Kumari W/o Dharmendra Thakur (D/o Surendra Thakur) R/V- Sekhi Chakia, P.S.- Chakiya, District.- Motihari At present petitioner no.2, resident of village - Gopal Chhapara Bakhari, P.S.- Kalyanpur, District.- East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Rabindra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 04-10-2024

1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. The petitioners have preferred this application for grant of anticipatory bail apprehending their arrest in connection with Chakia P.S. Case no. 457 of 2023 registered under sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 406, 120B, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. As per the prosecution case, the informant states that he purchased a piece of land from the vendors namely Surendra Thakur, Anand Kumar Thakur and Most. Jaikar Devi through a registered sale deed no. 2229 dated 13.2.2023 for a

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.38953 of 2024(3) dt.04-10-2024 2/3 consideration of Rs.15 lacs. However subsequently, on making an application for mutation of the land it transpired that the land belongs to P.W.D.

4. It is the case of the petitioners that the petitioners have been falsely implicated in the case only for the reason that the petitioner no.1 was one of the witnesses on the registered sale deed and petitioner no.2 happens to be the daughter of one of the vendors. It is further case of the petitioners that the dispute is purely civil in nature and in any case neither of these petitioners are the beneficiaries in the said sale, which has led to filing of the instant F.I.R.

5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegation in the F.I.R., the two petitioners herein not being among the vendors in the registered sale deed which has led to filing of the instant F.I.R. and the nature of the case, it is directed that both the petitioners, above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Chakia P.S. Case no. 457 of 2023 on each of them furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.38953 of 2024(3) dt.04-10-2024 3/3 (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran, Motihari.

(Partha Sarthy, J) avinash/- U T