Lav Kush Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.64116 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-696 Year-2024 Thana- MANER District- Patna ====================================================== Lav Kush Kumar S/o Raj Kumar @ Raju Kumar @ Raju Ray R/o Naga Tola, P.S.- Maner, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Patanjali Rishi, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Anand Kishore Choudhary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PARTHA SARTHY ORAL ORDER 17-09-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. The petitioner in this application prays for bail apprehending his arrest in connection with Maner P.S. Case no.696 of 2024 registered for the offence punishable under sections 109, 324(4) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and section 27 of the Arms Act.
3. As per the prosecution case, the informant states that while he was moving in his car, some accused persons surrounded him. On an attempt being made by the informant to escape, the accused resorted to firing. The shots hit the car. It is further stated that Pappu Kumar, Chanshu Kumar, Lavkush Kumar (the petitioner) and 8-10 other accused persons were there. On the villagers coming towards the place of occurrence, his life was saved. Two motorcycles were seized at the place of
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64116 of 2025(2) dt.17-09-2025 2/3 the occurrence. The informant further states that there being some dispute between the father-in-law of the owner of the vehicle in which the informant was travelling with Pappu Kumar for which he had gone to jail that it appears that the occurrence has been given effect to.
4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the case. The cause of false implication is some prior dispute between the father-in-law of the owner of the vehicle with the co-accused Pappu Kumar. It is submitted that no person was injured in the entire occurrence. The allegations are general and omnibus in nature and the case of the petitioner stands on a similar footing to that of co-accused Pappu Kumar who has been enlarged on bail vide order dated 18.7.2025 passed in Cr. Misc. no.44057 of 2025.
5. The application for bail is opposed by learned A.P.P. for the State.
6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and taking into consideration the allegations against the petitioner in the FIR, the allegations being general and omnibus in nature, no person having been injured in the entire occurrence and grant of bail to co-accused vide aforesaid order dated 18.7.2025, it is
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64116 of 2025(2) dt.17-09-2025 3/3 directed that the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks, be released on anticipatory bail in connection with Maner P.S. Case no.696 of 2024 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Danapur, District Patna. (Partha Sarthy, J) Saurabh/- U T