Manoj Kumar Soni @ Manoj Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.51281 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-43 Year-2025 Thana- Dehri Mufassil District- Rohtas ====================================================== Manoj Kumar Soni @ Manoj Kumar S/o Late Lal Krishna Soni R/o MohallaKachauri Gali, P.S.- Dehri, District- Rohtas ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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The State of Bihar 2.

Lakshmina Kunwar W/o Late Sudama Prasad R/o Mohalla- Kachauri Gali, P.S.- Dehri, District- Rohtas ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Pramod Rajpati, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Anil Prasad Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PURNENDU SINGH ORAL ORDER 12-08-2025 Heard Mr. Pramod Rajpati, learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and Mr. Anil Prasad Singh, learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks pre-arrest bail in connection with Dehri (Muffasil) P.S. Case No. 43 of 2025 registered for the offence(s) punishable under Sections 364,302,120B,34,201, of the Indian Penal Code.

3. As per the allegation made in the complaint, the accused persons named therein including the petitioner has killed the husband of the informant in order to grab the house of the complainant's husband. Further allegation is that in order to get the said house registered in his name, he along with five accused persons got the husband of the informant kidnapped by using his Scorpio vehicle and whatever expenses were incurred

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.51281 of 2025(2) dt.12-08-2025 2/2 in the murder of the complainant's husband has been given by him.

4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submitted that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case.

5. Learned APP for the State vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of pre-arrest bail.

6. Considering the fact that the alleged murder was committed in the year 2014 and the police have submitted the final form, the complainant being the wife of the deceased was compelled to lodge the complaint against the petitioner and other co-accused persons. On said complaint, FIR has been lodged, in which the petitioner is apprehending his arrest. Complicity of the petitioner in the alleged offence cannot be denied having found that the dead body of the husband of the complainant was recovered. I am not inclined to grant pre-arrest bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the present bail application stands dismissed.

(Purnendu Singh, J) Sanjay/- U T