Gopal Mahto @ Gopal Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.58826 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-151 Year-2025 Thana- BEGUSARAI TOWN District- Begusarai ====================================================== Gopal Mahto @ Gopal Kumar S/O Late Rajkumar Mahto R/O Vill. - Ward No. 38, Mahamadpur, P.S. - Nagar, Dist.- Begusarai ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Pritish Kumar Lal For the Opposite Party/s :
Mrs.Nirmala Kumari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 10-11-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner seeks bail in a case registered for offence under Section Sections 191(2), 191(3), 190, 103 and 61(2) of B.N.S., 2023.
3. As per F.I.R. on 15.04.2025 at about 6 AM, coaccused Karan Kumar called informant's brother and took away and later on, informant saw his brother lying in injured condition near railway line and on being asked, informant's brother told that co-accused Karan Kumar alongwith six other named accused persons brutally assaulted him with lath, danda and iron rod and thereafter, threw him near railway line. Subsequently, informant's brother died.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that informant is not eye-witness to the occurrence and only on suspicion, petitioner & others have been made accused.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58826 of 2025(3) dt.10-11-2025 2/2
5. However, learned A.P.P. vehemently opposes the prayer for bail and submits that petitioner is named in the F.I.R. on the basis of statement of the deceased. Besides this, petitioner has got five criminal antecedent.
6. Considering the nature of accusation and criminal antecedent, the prayer for bail of petitioner is rejected. However, since petitioner is in custody since 18.04.2025, the learned Trial Court is directed to expedite the trial and conclude the same preferably within a period of one year from the date of receipt/production of copy of this order.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) anay U T