Sujit Pandey @ Sujeet Pandey @ Bittu v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65895 of 2021 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-43 Year-2021 Thana- KARAKAT District- Rohtas ====================================================== Sujit Pandey @ Sujeet Pandey @ Bittu, Son of Sri Sunil Kumar Pandey Resident of Village - Sakla Bazar, P.S.- Karakat in the district of Rohtas. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sanjay Singh, Sr. Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ramchandra Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 10-05-2022 Heard Mr. Sanjay Singh, learned Senior Counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner is in judicial custody in connection with Karakat P.S. Case No.43 of 2021 (S.Tr. No.201 of 2021) for the offences under Section 302/307 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 27 of the Arms Act.

As per the prosecution story, it has been alleged that the informant along with his sons Raushan Kumar and Arun Kumar were present in their sweet shop. Further allegation is that the petitioner herein came and ate sweets and then his elder son Raushan Kumar demanded money for the same. On this not only he refused, he also abused and assaulted his son. The local shopkeepers came to his rescue whereafter the petitioner herein left the place but not before threatening them to kill. It is further alleged that he returned in the afternoon armed with countrymade pistol and started firing indiscriminately, as a result whereof his elder son received injury in

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65895 of 2021(2) dt.10-05-2022 2/2 his chest and succumb to the same at the place of occurrence itself. Further the younger son Arun Kumar also received injury in his stomach and was injured and taken to Karun Hospital, Bikramganj with the help of the villagers.

Learned Senior Counsel submits that since the trial has already been started a direction may be issued to conclude the same. The learned APP has no objection to it.

So far as the bail application of the petitioner is concerned, considering the specific allegation that has been made against him, this Court is not inclined to grant any relief to him and the bail application is hereby rejected.

The Trial court is directed to take the Trial to its logical conclusion without any unnecessary delay at an earliest. With the aforesaid observation, the bail application is rejected.

(Rajiv Roy, J) Prakash Narayan /- U T