Raja Lal Choudhary v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.52009 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-334 Year-2024 Thana- ARA MUFFSIL District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Raja Lal Choudhary S/o Shiv Sahay Bind Resident of Village - Gothahula, P.S. - Ara Muffasil, District - Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Raju Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Parmanand Kumar, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 01-09-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 109, 303(2), 308(3), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the BNS.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that he runs a small grocery shop and the accused persons including the petitioner came and demanded extortion of Rs.5,000/-. On refusal, Triloki Bind assaulted the informant by an iron rod causing injury on his head. Further, the accused took Rs.20,000/- from the cash box of the informant and Raja Lal Choudhary (petitioner) snatched his golden chain worth Rs.1 lakh.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.52009 of 2025(2) dt.01-09-2025 2/2 informant. It is further submitted that it is not a case of extortion rather there was dispute with regard to payment as a result of which an altercation took place in which both sides assaulted each other and petitioner has been falsely implicated with an allegation that he snatched the chain of the informant. It is next submitted that though Trilokli Bind is alleged to have assaulted the informant by an iron rod causing injury on his head but then the injury has been opined to be simple in nature.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Ara Mufassil P.S. Case No. 334 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T