Ravi Prakash Kumar @ Laddu Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.60436 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-67 Year-2025 Thana- CHAKIA District- East Champaran ====================================================== Ravi Prakash Kumar @ Laddu singh Son of Late Chandeshwar Singh @ Chandu Singh Ressident of Vill- Gawandra Tola Ramdih, P.S. - Chakia, Dist. - East Champaran.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Prateek Tandon, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs. Renu Kumari, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 28-08-2025 Heard Mr. Prateek Tandon, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mrs. Renu Kumari, learned APP for the State. 2.

The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Chakia P.S. Case No. 67 of 2025 instituted for the offence under Sections 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 61(2), 352, 351(2) & 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023.

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Prosecution case, in short, is that petitioner and his brother allegedly sold their share of land to one Sabara Khatoon on 26-10-2024. It is further alleged that informant has previously purchased the land in question from father of the petitioner and named accused persons demanded Rs. 5 lakhs to give up his share.

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It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.60436 of 2025(2) dt.28-08-2025 2/3 that the petitioner is in custody since 29.06.2025. Petitioner bears three criminal antecedents, as per disclosure made in paragraph No. 3 of the bail application.

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It has been further submitted by the petitioner's counsel that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case due to dirty village politics and his criminal antecedents. There is delay of four months in lodging the FIR without any plausible explanation, which raises doubt over the prosecution story. The dispute is purely civil in nature arising out of an alleged ownership claim over ancestral land and the appropriate remedy lies in a civil court through a title suit. It is next submitted that the petitioner neither committed any forgery nor conspired with anyone and the filing of this FIR is a misuse of the criminal justice system to exert pressure, amounting to an abuse of process of law. The co-accused person has already been granted bail by this Court vide order dated 23.07.2025 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 42033 of 2025 7.

Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the petitioner. 8.

Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, claim based on parity as also the period of custody of the petitioner, manner of petitioner's implication and dispute

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.60436 of 2025(2) dt.28-08-2025 3/3 being civil in nature, this Court is inclined to grant bail to the petitioner.

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Let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Court below/concerned Court in connection with Chakia P.S. Case No. 67 of 2025.

(Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) Alok Verma/- U T