Ravi Ranjan Singh @ Ravi Ranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.58855 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-656 Year-2018 Thana- ROHTAS COMPLAINT CASE DistrictRohtas ====================================================== Ravi Ranjan Singh @ Ravi Ranjan Kumar Son of Late Lal Babu Singh Resident of village - Shahpur, P.S.- Sasaram (Muffasil), District - Rohtas. ... ... Petitioner/s

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The State of Bihar 2.

Rama Shankar Singh Son of Late Mukhtar Singh Resident of village - Shahpur, P.O.- Bararhi, P.S.- Sasaram (Muffasil), District - Rohtas. ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Babu Nandan Prasad For the Opposite Party/s :

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

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 offences punishable under Sections 406, 323, 504 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 petitioner is his agnate and took compensation of complainant's land acquired by GAIL, which came in his share based on partition.

4. Learned counsel submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that compensation is paid only when the authorities verify the credential of the land owners. It is also submitted

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.58855 of 2025(2) dt.10-09-2025 2/2 that the dispute is purely civil to which a criminal colour has been given. It is next submitted that in the event if the complainant is aggrieved by the fact that petitioner received the compensation of the acquired land, in that event, he has remedy to resort to in accordance with law but then a criminal case came to be instituted only with a view to coerce the petitioner into submission.

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 Complaint Case No.656/2018, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T