Pappu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.44057 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-696 Year-2024 Thana- MANER District- Patna ====================================================== Pappu Kumar Son of Avinash Rai @ Avinash Kumar @ Avinash Singh @ Avnish Rai R/O Jivarakhan Tola, P.S.- Maner, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Patanjali Rishi, Advocate Ms. Prerna Rishi, Advocate Mr. Akshay Dutta, Advocate Mr. Nishant Shekhar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Anuj Kumar Shrivastava, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 18-07-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of anticipatory bail apprehending his arrest in connection with Maner P.S. Case no.696 of 2024 registered under sections 109, 324(4) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and section 27 of the Arms Act.
3. As per the prosecution case, the informant states that while he was moving in his car, some accused persons surrounded him. On an attempt being made by the informant to escape, the accused resorted to firing. The shots hit the car. It is further stated that Pappu Kumar, Chanshu Kumar, Lavkush Kumar and 8-10 other accused persons were there. On the villagers coming towards the place of occurrence, his life was
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.44057 of 2025(2) dt.18-07-2025 2/3 saved. Two motorcycles were seized at the place of the occurrence. The informant further states that there being some dispute between the father-in-law of the owner of the vehicle in which the informant was travelling with the petitioner Pappu Kumar for which he had gone to jail that it appears that the occurrence has been given effect to.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case because of dispute between the parties which would be evident from the contents of the F.I.R. itself. Admittedly, no person was injured in the entire occurrence and from the F.I.R. it would transpire that the allegations against the petitioner are general and omnibus in nature. The petitioner undertakes to cooperate in the investigation/trial.
5. The application for anticipatory bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.
6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegations against the petitioner in the F.I.R., no person having been injured in the entire occurrence and the pending dispute between the parties as evident from the contents of the F.I.R. itself, it is directed that the petitioner above named, in the event of his arrest or
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.44057 of 2025(2) dt.18-07-2025 3/3 surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Maner P.S. Case no.696 of 2024 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Danapur, Patna.
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