Krishnanand Jha v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.58941 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-171 Year-2025 Thana- BAHADURPUR District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Krishnanand Jha Son of Late Upendranath Jha Resident of Village - Kharajpur, PS - Bahadurpur, Dist - Darbhanga ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Ugranath Mallik For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Uday Chand Prasad ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-09-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 118(2) and 109(1) of the B.N.S.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is aged about 70 years and the informant alleges that petitioner came while he was cleaning bushes from his vacant land and assaulted him by a sharp edged weapon causing injury on head.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58941 of 2025(2) dt.10-09-2025 2/3 by the informant. It is next submitted that since petitioner has grown old and stays with his wife who is suffering from cancer, as such, the informant intends to grab his land and thus, was cutting the bushes which was objected by the petitioner. Accordingly, a scuffle took place in which some villagers came and help the petitioner and the informant fell on the ground leading to injury. It is further submitted that this perhaps explains why in the FIR informant has not disclosed the weapon by which the informant assaulted. It is reiterated and submitted that petitioner is 70 years of age and has remained a person with clean antecedent all throughout and all of a sudden, has been made a criminal.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, abovenamed, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on anticipatory bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58941 of 2025(2) dt.10-09-2025 3/3 satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-IX, Darbhanga in connection with Bahadurpur P. S. Case No.171 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T