Gorakh Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.25085 of 2016 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -3 Year- 2016 Thana -KURTHA District- JEHANABAD ====================================================== Gorakh Manjhi, son of Maheshi Manjhi, resident of village- Mahmadpur, Police Station- Kurtha, District- Arwal.

.... .... Petitioner

Versus

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

For the Petitioner : Mr. Manish Kumar No-2, Advocate For the Opposite Party : Mr. M.K. Khare (App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ADITYA KUMAR TRIVEDI ORAL ORDER 12-07-2016 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl.P.P.

Informant, who happens to be the father of the deceased Vikrant gave his fardbeyan on 13.01.2016 disclosing therein that on 11.01.2016, Vikrant had gone along with his friends. In the night at about 10-11 p.m., he received telephonic information wherein he came to know that during course of drinking wine, deceased had developed quarrel with the villagers of village-Mashari and during course thereof, he was murdered and his dead body had been disposed of. Furthermore, he came to know with regard to assailants apart from others i.e. Bahadur Manjhi, Kamlesh Manjhi, Gorakh Manjhi, Mukesh Manjhi, Ranjan Manjhi, Sunny Manjhi, Dudheshwar Manjhi, Satyendra

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.25085 of 2016 (3) dt.12-07-2016 2/2 Manjhi, Puna Manjhi and Manoj Manjhi From perusal of the case diary, it is evident that informant had not disclosed the names of friends of Vikrant with whom Vikrant had gone. Apart from this, all the witnesses who ever been examined uptill now happens to be the hearsay witnesses. None had claimed to be an eye-witness. Consequent thereupon, petitioner namely Gorakh Manjhi is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Arwal in connection with Kurtha P.S. case no. 03/2016.

(Aditya Kumar Trivedi, J.) rinkee/- U T