Majnu Rai @ Majnu @ Manju @ Akhilesh Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.48927 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-999 Year-2022 Thana- BIHTA District- Patna ====================================================== Majnu Rai @ Majnu @ Manju @ Akhilesh Kumar S/O Chandradeep Rai R/O Takiya (cHAKIYA), Doriganj, P.S- Saran, District - Saran. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ghanshyam Tiwary, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Rajendra Prasad Nat, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 12-08-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State.
2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 379, 120(B), 160, 216, 302 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act.
3. Prosecution case, in brief, is that on 29.09.2022 at about 11.40 AM, informant got information that at Sone Diara near Kawariya Ghat firing is going on between two groups to assert supremacy over sand mining. When the informant reached the place of occurrence, all of them fled away. Local chowkidar and villagers named all the F.I.R named accused persons including this petitioner and in this cross-firing four persons were killed.
4. It is submitted that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case by the informant merely
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.48927 of 2025(2) dt.12-08-2025 2/2 only on the basis of suspicion. There is no specific allegation of firing against petitioner. No incriminating materials, arms or any illegal articles have been recovered from possession or house of the petitioner hence, no case under sections 147, 148, 149, 307, 379, 120(B), 160, 216, 302 of the Indian Penal Code and u/s 27 of Arms Act is made out against petitioner.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State vehemently opposed the bail application.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, this anticipatory bail is allowed and it is ordered that let the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of eight weeks from today, 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 Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-1, Danapur (Patna) in connection with Bihta P. S. Case No. 999 of 2022, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Navya/- U T