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Patna High CourtCR. MISC./45297/2024allowed

Lalla @ Md. Lalla v. The State Of Bihar

2024-08-02Mr. Justice Khatim Reza3 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.45297 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-71 Year-2024 Thana- SOHSARAI District- Nalanda ====================================================== Lalla @ Md. Lalla, Male, aged about 24 years, son of Md. Kamruddin @ Md. Kamru, resident of Village- Sohdih Kharjamma, P.S.- Sohsarai, DistrictNalanda. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Raj Kishor Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ram Anurag Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 02-08-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with Sohsarai PS Case No.71 of 2024 dated 15.03.2024, instituted under Sections 379 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on the alleged date of occurrence a theft was committed in the shop of the informant in which Exide Battery, Gas cylinders, mobile, bottle of sprite kept in twelve cartons etc. and rupees thirty thousand cash were stolen. The petitioner identified the accused persons from CCTV footage with the help of nearby people.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45297 of 2024(3) dt.02-08-2024 2/3 petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in this case. Petitioner as well as the informant are the resident of the same locality. The CCTV footage was not examined by the police or any expert. The informant did not identify the petitioner, rather, name of the petitioner has been disclosed by nearby people. Further submission is that the name of the petitioner has been disclosed by the person, who is inimical to the petitioner. It is also submitted that similarly situated coaccused Md. Shamshad has been granted bail by this Court by order dated 20.07.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 42529 of 2024. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner 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 the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Nalanda at Biharsharif, in Sohsarai PS Case No.71 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973.

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7. The application stands allowed.

(Khatim Reza, J) J. Alam/- U T