Uma Shankar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56762 of 2021 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-844 Year-2018 Thana- SASARAM NAGAR District- Rohtas ====================================================== Uma Shankar Singh Son Of Late Gouri Shankar Singh Resident Of Village - Siaruan, Motihari, P.S.- Sanjhauli, District - Rohtas At Sasaram. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Babu Nandan Prasad For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Syed Mojibur Rahman ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 28-06-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 302, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Prosecution case is that son of the informant was found dead in suspicious condition in the hostel building and petitioner being teacher of the school has been made accused along with others.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case. He submits that petitioner is not night guard in the Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru Residential School rather he was an Assistant Teacher. He submits that during course of investigation, police found from the CCTV footage that the deceased entered inside the room with rope as such, he died due to hanging and committed suicide. He submits that the petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56762 of 2021(3) dt.28-06-2022 2/2 was not present at the time of occurrence. He submits that similarly situated co-accused has already been granted bail by a Bench of this Court vide order dated 18.09.2019 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 36686 of 2019. Postmortem report shows that death occurred due to strangulation. He further submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent as stated in para-3 of this application.

Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail.

Considering the fact that similarly situated co-accused has been granted bail, let the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Sasaram Nagar P.S. Case No. 844 of 2018, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) devendra/- U T