Ravi Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.36053 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-35 Year-2026 Thana- KARPI District- Arwal ====================================================== Ravi Kumar Son of Budha Manjhi @ Kishun Manjhi Resident of VillageRampur, Ward No. 14, P.S.- Karpi, District- Arwal ... ... Petitioner
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner :
Mr. Shivendra Prasad, Adv.
For the Opposite Party :
Mr. Ramchandra Sahni, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA ORAL ORDER 21-07-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The accused/petitioner is named in the FIR and apprehending his arrest in connection with Karpi P.S. Case No.35 of 2026 registered under Sections 191(2), 190, 115(2), 117(2), 121(1), 121(2), 109, 125(b) and 132 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (in short 'BNS').
3. The allegation against the petitioner is to enter into scuffle with police person/informant who raided the neighbours's house of the petitioner under information that the co-accused Laxman Manjhi @ Lakshman Manjhi indulges in illicit liquor business/trade.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.36053 of 2026(3) dt.21-07-2026 2/3
4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was implicated with present crime in question only for the reason that he is the neighbour of co-accused, Laxman Manjhi @ Lakshman Manjhi for whom the police raided the house of co-accused. It is submitted that the co-accused Laxman Manjhi @ Lakshman Manjhi, was accused in two more excise cases and when under secret information, informant/ police team conducted the raid on his his house, co-accused Laxman Manjhi @ Lakshman Manjhi with unknown co-villagers started pelting stones and brick plate upon informant and police personnel during which the informant received injury below eye. It is submitted that the allegation of assault and also of pelting stones and further to deter police official from discharging their official duty is very much general and omnibus against this petitioner. Petitioner claimed clean antecedent.
5. Learned APP opposed the prayer of bail.
6. In view of aforesaid factual submissions and by taking note of fact as petitioner did not found involved in any excise case coupled with the fact that the allegation qua
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.36053 of 2026(3) dt.21-07-2026 3/3 pelting stones or to deter informant/police from discharging their official duty prima facie appears very general and omnibus in nature against the petitioner, accordingly, the petitioner, above-named petitioner, who is a man of clean antecedent, is directed to be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Arwal, in connection with Karpi P.S. Case No.35 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.
(Chandra Shekhar Jha, J.) Aniket/- U T