Dhirendra Prasad @ Dhirendra Bhagat v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.54603 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-740 Year-2024 Thana- SIWAN MUFFASIL District- Siwan ====================================================== Dhirendra Prasad @ Dhirendra Bhagat S/o Jodha Bhagat @ Yodha Bhagat @ Pawan Kumar R/o Village -Bhopatpur Bharatiya, P.S- Lakdinabiganj, District - Siwan ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mrs. Kumari Anupam, Advocate For the APP :

Mr. Binod Kumar No.3, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 17-12-2025 Heard Mrs. Kumari Anupam, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Binod Kumar No.3, learned APP for the State.

2. Petitioner seeks regular bail in connection with Siwan Mufassil P.S. Case No. 740 of 2024 dated 22.11.2024 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 103 and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

3. The main submissions advanced by petitioner's counsel are that the informant is not an eyewitness to the alleged occurrence and claims to have reached the place of occurrence only after receiving information, where he allegedly found the dead body of his father. It is further submitted that the implication of the accused persons is solely based on a preexisting land dispute and alleged prior threats, without any

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.54603 of 2025(5) dt.17-12-2025 2/2 direct or independent evidence connecting the petitioner to the commission of the alleged offence. It is also submitted that no specific overt act has been attributed to the petitioner in the FIR, and the prosecution case rests on suspicion rather than concrete material and the petitioner has been falsely implicated due to enmity arising out of a land dispute, in respect of which T.S. No. 326/99 is pending between the parties. It is lastly submitted that the petitioner has been in custody since 19.04.2025.

4. Learned APP for the State has opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner.

5. Considering the aforesaid submissions, and mainly taking into account the above-mentioned land dispute between the parties and the period of custody of the petitioner, this Court is inclined to release the petitioner on bail. Accordingly, let the petitioner named-above be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the concerned Court in connection with Siwan Mufassil P.S. Case No. 740 of 2024.

(Shailendra Singh, J) maynaz/- U T