Ranjeet Kumar @ Khatash Yadav @ Khatash @ Ranjeet Yadav @ Ranjeet Prasad v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.58522 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-474 Year-2022 Thana- PUNPUN District- Patna ====================================================== Ranjeet Kumar @ Khatash Yadav @ Khatash @ Ranjeet Yadav @ Ranjeet Prasad S/O Rajnandan Yadav @ Nandan Yadav R/O Village- Khangura, P.S.- Chiksaura, District- Nalanda ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar Patna ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Tej Narayan Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Jharkhandi Upadhyay, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SOURENDRA PANDEY ORAL ORDER 29-08-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Punpun P.S. Case No. 474 of 2022 registered for the offences under Section 395 I.P.C.
3. As per the prosecution case, it is alleged that the informant was protecting his paddy crops when 4-5 persons entered into his hut and started assaulting him with the butt of the pistol and they tied him up. It is further alleged that they took away the masooriya paddy kept in the khalihan on a pickup van.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the
2/4 instant case. Further submission is that petitioner is not named in the FIR and his name has surfaced in the confessional statement of one co-accused Sachin Kumar @ Ghanti. It is next submitted that nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner or his house. Learned counsel further submits that one co-accused, namely, Tallu Kumar has been granted anticipatory bail by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 09.07.2025 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 41550/2025. It is lastly submitted that the petitioner has been named in this case only because he carries three criminal cases against his name of similar nature.
5. Learned APP for the State has opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail.
6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and the submissions advanced on behalf of the parties, let the petitioner above named be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Punpun P.S. Case No. 474 of 2022, subject to the conditions as
3/4 laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure read with corresponding Section 482(2) of B.N.S.S. as well as subject to the following conditions:- (i) One of the bailors of the petitioner shall be his close relative.
(ii) The petitioner shall remain physically present in Court on each date of the trial.
(iii) In case of absence on two consecutive dates, or in violation of the terms of the bail, the bail bond of the petitioner will be liable to be cancelled by the Court concerned. (iv) If the petitioner is found involved in similar nature of offence in future, the prosecution shall be at liberty to move for cancellation of his bail bond.
(v) The learned Court below shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in case at any stage it is found that the petitioner has concealed his criminal antecedent, the court below shall take step for cancellation of bail bond of the petitioner. However, the acceptance of bail bonds in terms of the above-mentioned order shall not be delayed for purpose of or in the name of verification.
(vi) In view of the antecedent of the petitioner, the petitioner is directed to appear before the Superintendent of
4/4 Police, Patna within fifteen days of his release with a copy of this order and every two weeks thereafter for the next nine months. The conduct of the petitioner will be kept under watch in this period by the Superintendent of Police concerned and if it is found wanting in any respect, a report shall be made to the Court concerned by him to initiate a proceeding for cancellation of bail for reasons of misuse of bail. After reporting to the Superintendent of Police, a certificate will be filed by the petitioner before the Court concerned.
7. Accordingly, the prayer for bail is allowed. (Sourendra Pandey, J) tusharika/- U T