Shubham Kumar @ Shubham Soni @ Chandrapraksh Soni v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.50250 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-205 Year-2017 Thana- BHELDI District- Saran ====================================================== Shubham Kumar @ Shubham Soni @ Chandrapraksh Soni S/o Vinay Shah R/o Village- Mirpur Patadh, PS- Sarai, District- Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Niranjan Parihar , Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Bharat Lal , APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 12-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State .
2. The petitioner seeks regular bail in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 399 and 402 of the Indian Penal Code Section and 25 (1-b)/a/26/35 of Arms Act 30 (a) of the Bihar Prohibition and Excise Act. 3 . It is alleged that on secret information a raid was conducted, in which three accused persons were apprehended by police who disclosed their names as Raju Kumar Sahani, Abhimanyu Mahto @ Manua and Sonu Kumar and from their possession arms and ammunitions were recovered by the police .
4. Learned counsel appearing for the petitioner submits that the name of the petitioner transpired in the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.50250 of 2025(2) dt.12-09-2025 2/2 confessional statement of co-accused persons who were apprehended on the spot. No incriminating material has been recovered from the conscious possession of petitioner and has got no concern with the alleged occurrence . Charge sheet has already been submitted. Petitioner is in custody since 18.03.2025 . Petitioner claims clean antecedent. Similarly situated co-accused person has already granted bail by this Court vide order dated 07.09.2020 in Cr. Misc. No. 19405 of 2020.
5 . Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts of the case , period of custody and other circumstances of the case , prayer for regular bail of the petitioner is allowed. Let the petitioner, mentioned above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Ist Exclusive special Excise Court Saran at Chhapra in connection with Bheldi P. S. Case No. 205 of 2017.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Koushik/- U T