Ranglal Thakur v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.58320 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-207 Year-2020 Thana- SIDHWALIYA District- Gopalganj ====================================================== RANGLAL THAKUR Son of Jitan Thakur R/o vill - Rampur, P.S. - Sidhwalia, Distt. - Gopalganj ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Raghav Prasad For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Ganesh Prasad Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL KUMAR PANWAR ORAL ORDER 03-10-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, informant and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner has prayed for regular bail in a case instituted for the offence under Sections 304/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The allegation against the petitioner along with others is of killing the grand-son of the informant.

4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner has been falsely implicated in this case. He has committed no offence. During investigation, one co-villager namely Umesh Bin is Welder and he was welding pipe through Electric connection, in the meantime the victim came into the connection of damaged electric wire and he died. There is no consistent evidence and no eye-witness of the alleged

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58320 of 2023(3) dt.03-10-2023 2/2 occurrence to show that the petitioner has involved in the present case. Further, it is submitted that from the perusal of the Postmortem report, it appears that the caused of death was electrocution. Petitioner has got no criminal antecedent as stated in para-3 of the bail petition. He is languishing in judicial custody since 12.06.2023.

5. The application for bail is opposed by learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the informant and submitted that petitioner is named in the FIR and there is no strong circumstantial evidence has come against the petitioner.

6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and considering the facts and circumstances of the case as well as period of custody, this court is inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail. The above named petitioner is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rs. ten thousand only) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below in connection with Sidhwaliya P.S. Case No. 207 of 2020.

(Sunil Kumar Panwar, J) arish/- U T