Shankar Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Criminal Miscellaneous No.45828 of 2014 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -46 Year- 2014 Thana -BANKA District- BANKA ====================================================== Shankar Manjhi S/o Late Parmeshwar Manjhi Resident of village- Manjira, Police Station- Manjira, District- Banka .... .... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Ajay Mukherjee For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Nazir Ansari(App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 04-08-2015 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State.
The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
The prosecution case is that the mother of the informant went outside to ease and thereafter she did not return. On next day the dead body of the mother of the informant was recovered. It is suspected that the mother of the informant was killed by the hands of the accused persons due to enmity. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the petitioner is agnate of the informant and due to the enmity the petitioner has been roped in the present case.
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.45828 of 2014 (02) dt.04-08-2015 2/2 A statement has been made in paragraph 3 of the petition that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent. It is submitted by learned counsel for the informant that prayer for anticipatory bail of similarly situated co-accused Dinesh Manjhi and Manish Manjhi has been rejected vide Cr. Misc. No. 35296 of 2014.
Considering the suspicious nature of accusation, it is a case for consideration of prayer for regular bail of the petitioner, if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Banka P.S. Case No. 46 of 2014 pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh, J) DKS/- U T