Karan Kumar @ Karan Kumar Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56655 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-65 Year-2025 Thana- KOPA District- Saran ====================================================== Karan Kumar @ Karan Kumar Manjhi S/o Manoj Manjhi @ Manoj Kumar Manjhi R/o Village- Pokhar Bhinda, P.S.- Kopa, District- Saran at Chapra ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Avinash Kumar Pandey, Adv.

For the State :

Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 29-08-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. As prayed for, learned counsel appearing for the petitioner is permitted to make necessary correction/s in the prayer portion.

3. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 109, 303(2), 352, 3(5) of the BNS, 2023.

4. The allegation in the FIR is that as many as five persons came variously armed and started assaulting the informant and others and there is a specific allegation against the petitioner is that he assaulted one Chandni Kumari on her head indiscriminately, causing injuries.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56655 of 2025(2) dt.29-08-2025 2/3 present case arises out of a domestic dispute between the parties with regard to partition of properties and the present informant happens to be the maternal aunt of the petitioner. It is further submitted that the dispute took place between the parties on the spur of the moment and as against the allegation of indiscriminate assault on the head of Chandni Kumari by the petitioner, there is only one lacerated wound found on her forehead, which is also said to be simple in nature caused by blunt force as would appear from Annexure-2, the injury report.

6. Learned APP for the State, however, opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail on the ground of specific allegation upon this petitioner.

7. Taking into consideration the fact that the present case arises out of a domestic dispute between the cognates and the only injury sustained is simple in nature, let the petitioner, above named, who is a young boy of 22 years of age having no criminal antecedent, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned lower Court where the case is pending/successor Court in connection with Kopa P.S. Case No. 65 of 2025, subject to the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.56655 of 2025(2) dt.29-08-2025 3/3 condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C/ 482

(2) of the BNSS, 2023 and also to the further conditions that: (i) One of the bailors will be the mother of the petitioner. (ii) The petitioner will cooperate in the investigation and appear before the Investigating Officer of the concerned Police Station as and when required till investigation is pending against him and in case of non-cooperation, the prosecution will be at liberty to file an application for cancellation of bail bond of the petitioner before the learned Court below.

(Soni Shrivastava, J) divyanshi/- U T