Umesh Yadav v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.58434 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-138 Year-2020 Thana- JHAJHA District- Jamui ====================================================== Umesh Yadav S/o- Baleshwar Yadav Resident of Village- Dumarhar PSJhajha District- Jamui ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Amar Prakash For the Opposite Party/s :
Ms. Rina Sinha ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 08-09-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 341, 323, 337, 324, 307, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that on 20.05.2020 at about 5.00 P.M., the cow of the informant entered the field of the petitioner, on account of which, a dispute arose and the petitioner assaulted the informant by axe causing injury on head and thereafter also assaulted his Bhabhi.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that the date of occurrence is 20.05.2020 and the FIR came to be instituted on 24.05.2025 i.e. after a delay of four days without any plausible explanation. It is
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58434 of 2025(2) dt.08-09-2025 2/2 also submitted that petitioner and the informant are agnates and are having dispute relating to land and the injury suffered by the informant is simple in nature. It is also submitted that on account of dispute relating to cow grazing the field of the petitioner, an altercation had taken place in which both side assaulted each other. It is further submitted that petitioner is not a criminal.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Jhajha P.S. Case No.138/2020, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T