Ashwini @ Anshu Kumar Chaubey @ Ashwini Kumar Chaubey v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.38872 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-19 Year-2023 Thana- BUXAR MUFFSIL District- Buxar ====================================================== Ashwini @ Anshu Kumar Chaubey @ Ashwini kumar Chaubey S/O Ansh Narayan Choubey @ Bansh Narayan Choubey R/O Village- Banarpur, P.SBuxar (Mufassil), Distt.- Buxar, Bihar. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Anurag Saurav, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 26-06-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in Buxar (M) P.S. Case No. 19 of 2023, instituted for the offences punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149, 341, 323, 307, 427, 435, 436 and 153 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. The prosecution case, in short, is that, approximately mob of 250 persons came at the gate of Bihar Thermal Power Plant and raised slogan against local administration and restrained labourers and workers to enter into the factory.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.38872 of 2025(2) dt.26-06-2025 2/3 present case. Learned counsel for the petitioner also submits that no specific allegation attributed against the petitioner. The allegation levelled against the petitioner is general and omnibus in nature. It is thus submitted that whenever the petitioner along with others used to protest, they came to be implicated in one or the other case. The petitioner has got eleven criminal antecedents. It is next submitted that in the instant case also the petitioner has been implicated along with 250 people, alleging that they were protesting against STPL and local administration. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that similarly situated co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court vide order dated 10.12.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 85614 of 2024.
5. Learned APP for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, let the petitioner, above named in the event of arrest/surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with Buxar (M) P.S. Case
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.38872 of 2025(2) dt.26-06-2025 3/3 No. 19 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Rajorshi/- U T