Shrawan Yadav @ Shrawan Kumar Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.42753 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-131 Year-2022 Thana- BARARI District- Katihar ====================================================== Shrawan Yadav @ Shrawan Kumar Yadav S/o Hardeo Yadav, R/o- Mohna Chandpur, P.S.- Barari, Distt.- Katihar.

... ... Petitioner

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

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

Mr. Vinod Shanker Modi, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 16-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in connection with Barari(Semapur) P.S. Case No. 131 of 2022, dated 18.05.2022 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149 and 307 of the Indian Penal Code and under Section 27 of the Arms Act.

3. As per the prosecution case, on 17.05.2022, when the informant's son was returning to his house on a pick-up van, on the way all the FIR named accused persons signed to stop the vehicle and when his son did not stop the vehicle, they started firing indiscriminately and one bullet hit on the right hand of informant's son.

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

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.42753 of 2025(2) dt.16-07-2025 2/2 due to ulterior motive. The allegation levelled in the FIR is false and fabricated and the petitioner has not committed any such offence as alleged in the FIR. Nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. The co-accused persons namely Bijay Yadav and Ors. have already been granted bail by a Co-ordinate Bench vide order dated 11.12.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 82533 of 2024. The petitioner has got two criminal antecedents as stated in paragraph no. 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is in custody since 29.03.2025.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as petitioner's period of custody, the petitioner, above-named, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bailbond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand Only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar, in connection with Barari(Semapur) P.S. Case No. 131 of 2022.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Chandra Prakash Singh, J) Shahnawaz/- U T