Rentu Dubey @ Rentu Kumar Dubey @ Rintu Kumar Dubey @ Rintu Dubey v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.47760 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-249 Year-2019 Thana- MAJHAULIA District- West Champaran ====================================================== RENTU DUBEY @ RENTU KUMAR DUBEY @ RINTU KUMAR DUBEY @ RINTU DUBEY SON OF AWADESH DUBEY R/O VILLAGERULHI, P.S.- MAJHULIYA, DISTRICT- WEST CHAMPARAN. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Dhannjay Kumar No 2 For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Arun Kumar Pandey ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 06-12-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
The Petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Majhuliya P.S. Case No.249 of 2019, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 342, 323, 353, 386, 387, 419, 420 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. As per allegation in the FIR, three accused persons were assaulting the passenger of a Scorpio vehicle. Seeing the police party, they fled away but one of them was caught. The apprehended accused disclosed that he alongwith petitioner and one another co-accused extorted money from the passengers. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47760 of 2022(2) dt.06-12-2022 2/2 present case. The petitioner has got one criminal antecedent as stated in paragraph-3 of the bail application. It is further submitted that the petitioner is made accused in the present case on the basis of confessional statement of the co-accused who was apprehended at the spot. It is submitted that similarly situated co-accused, Manu Pandey @ Manu Dubey has already been enlarged on anticipatory bail by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 09.03.2022, passed in Cr. Misc. No.27131 of 2021.
Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
Considering the nature of offence, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner on anticipatory bail. Accordingly, the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is rejected. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) Sanjay/- U T