Purshotam Jha @ Purshottam Jha @ Purushotam Jha v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.64512 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-19 Year-2025 Thana- RATANPUR District- Supaul ====================================================== Purshotam Jha @ Purshottam Jha @ Purushotam Jha S/o Krityanand Jha R/o Village- Lalmanpatti, Ward No 05, PS- Ratanpura, District- Supaul ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Vivekanand Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Lalan Kumar, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 16-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State.
2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 117(2), 109, 303(2), 353, 351(2), 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
3. Prosecution case, in brief, is that on 11.03.2025 at about 11:30 AM, when informant along with his sons and nephew was going to attend marriage ceremony, on the way, stone was being unloaded from a truck which was parked in the middle of road and when informant objected, all the F.I.R. named accused persons, including this petitioner, assaulted informant and his family members with iron rod, khanti.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence. He further
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64512 of 2025(2) dt.16-09-2025 2/2 submits that quarrel took place between the parties over trivial issue of unloading stones from the truck in which both sides sustained injuries. Case and counter case. Case lodged by the petitioner's side is earlier in point of time. Allegation of assault is general and omnibus and there is no specific allegation of overt act against petitioner. Petitioner claims clean antecedent.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State vehemently opposed the bail application.
6. Considering the backdrop of the case, nature of accusation and clean antecedent, this anticipatory bail is allowed and it is ordered that let the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of eight weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bailbond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Birpur, Supaul in connection with Ratanpura P. S. Case No. 19 of 2025, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Navya/- U T