Satrughan Paswan v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.43027 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-18 Year-2026 Thana- KIUL District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== Satrughan Paswan, S/o Ram Das Paswan, R/o vill - Futuk Par, P.S.- Kiul, Distt.- Lakhisarai ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Sushmita Mishra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Kumar Veerendra Narayan, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RANJAN KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 14-07-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner appear before this Court with a prayer for the grant of anticipatory bail in connection with Kiul, P.S. Case No. 18 of 2026, dated 18.02.2026, registered under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 117(2), 109(1), 303(2), 121, 132, 324(4) and 3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023.
3. The case of prosecution, in short is that the informant and other officials of the Electricity Department, upon receiving information regarding electricity theft reached the spot and found electricity theft in the said premises. While they were carrying out their official duties, the petitioner and others, who were directly involved in the theft or incidentally present on the place of occurrence, gathered, started making halla, and
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.43027 of 2026(2) dt.14-07-2026 2/3 assaulted the team.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has clean antecedents and has been falsely implicated. It is further submitted that there is no prior acquaintance between the informant and the petitioner, and naming him in the F.I.R. demonstrates extraneous considerations for false implication. She further draws attention to the injury reports, showing that the injuries are simple in nature. On these grounds, she prays for anticipatory bail.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer, submitting that the petitioner is named in the F.I.R. and participated in the assault on the official electricity team.
6. Having considered the submissions, and taking into account that the injuries sustained by the injured are simple in nature and not on vital parts of the body, this Court is inclined to allow the prayer.
7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within four weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail upon furnishing a bail bond of 25,000/- ₹ (Rupees Twenty-Five Thousand Only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Lakhisarai, Kiul, P.S. Case No. 18 of 2026. to the conditions
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.43027 of 2026(2) dt.14-07-2026 3/3 laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
8. It is made clear that any future participation of the petitioner in similar criminal activity will be the sole ground to cancel the bail.
(Ranjan Kumar Jha, J) rashmi/- U T