Raja Singh @ Raja Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.44242 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-620 Year-2023 Thana- BARHARA District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Raja Singh @ Raja Kumar Singh S/O Munna Singh R/O Village- Fuhan, P.S.- Barahara, Distt-Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Mohammad Sufyan, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 24-07-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Barahara P.S. Case No. 620 of 2023 dated 28.10.2023 instituted for the offence punishable under Sections 341, 323, 307, 379, 427, 504, 506, 354/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on the alleged date of occurrence, the petitioners along with other accused persons abused the family members of the informant and pelted stones on his house. On protest, they assaulted the informant, his wife and his son. Allegation against the petitioner is that he assaulted the son of the informant by fists and slaps.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in this

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.44242 of 2024(2) dt.24-07-2024 2/2 case. It is further submitted that the informant and the petitioner are co-villagers and due to some animosity between the parties, the petitioner has been made accused in this case. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the informant has received simple injury caused by hard and blunt object and this injury is attributed to co-accused, namely, Munna Singh, not to the petitioner. Lastly, it has been submitted that petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

5. On the other hand, learned A.P.P. for the State has opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest / surrender of the petitioner within a period of six weeks from today, in connection with Barhara P.S. Case No. 620 of 2023, he will be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara subject to condition as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. (Khatim Reza, J) premchand/- U T