Niranjan Singh @ Niranjan Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.45513 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -16 Year- 2017 Thana -PAKRIDAYAL DistrictEASTCHAMPARAN(MOTIHARI) ======================================================

1. Niranjan Singh @ Niranjan Kumar Singh Son of Vaidhnath Singh, Resident of Village-Iraj Nurullahpur, P.S.-Shikarganj, District-East Champaran.

.... .... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Umesh Chandra Verma For the Opposite Party/s : Smt. Renuka Ratnakar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. NILU AGRAWAL ORAL ORDER 18-10-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

Petitioner is languishing in judicial custody since 09.05.2017 in connection with Pakridayal P.S. Case No. 16 of 2017, G.R. No. 595 of 2017 for offences punishable under Sections 387, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code. The prosecution case, as lodged by the informant, is that he received a call from a mobile enumerated in the First Information Report demanding Rs. 30 lakhs as ransom and named himself as Shiv Shankar Sharma, President of New Ranveer Sena. It has been submitted by the learned counsel for the

petitioner that he is innocent, not named in the First Information Report and Pakridayal P.S. Case No. 15/2017 and Pakridayal P.S. Case No. 17/2017 are of similar allegation of the same date lodged by the different informants alleging the said demand made. He submits that charge-sheet has already been submitted and two of the co-accused have been granted privilege of bail by coordinate Benches of this Court in Cr. Misc. No. 34965 of 2017 on 04.08.2017 and Cr. Misc. No. 39663 of 2017 on 21.08.2017. However, learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail stating therein that the petitioner does not have a clean antecedent and three more cases are pending against him. Considering the facts and circumstances and the materials on record, let petitioner, above named, 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 learned 5th Addl. Chief Judicial Magistrate, East Champaran at Motihari, in connection with Pakaridayal P.S. Case No. 16 of 2017, subject to the conditions that:

(1) One of the bailors of the petitioner shall be a local person having sufficient immovable property within the jurisdiction of the concerned court.

(2) The petitioner will not induce any witness or tamper with the evidence.

(3) The petitioner shall cooperate in the disposal of trial and make himself available as and when required by the court and on the event of failure on his part to appear before the court below on two consecutive dates without showing any genuine reasons, the prosecution is free to move for cancellation of his bail.

(Nilu Agrawal, J) Rajesh/- U