Sanjay Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65408 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-478 Year-2023 Thana- HISUWA District- Nawada ====================================================== Sanjay Manjhi S/O Jhigan Manjhi R/O Village- Eknar, P.S- Hisua, Distt.- Nawada.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Sunil Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Anil Prasad Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03-11-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the informant and learned APP for the State.

2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 147, 148, 149, 307 and 302 of the IPC.

3. According to the prosecution case, all seven accused persons including this petitioner assaulted the father and brother of the informant by means of lathi, iron rod, and axe, due to which the father of the informant sustained injury and died on the spot, and the brother of the informant got injured.

4. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that as per FIR co-accused Jhigan Manjhi assaulted on the head of the father of the informant with tangi and this petitioner is alleged

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65408 of 2025(3) dt.03-11-2025 2/2 to have assaulted with hockey to the brother of the informant, petitioner is not alleged to have assaulted the deceased. Injury caused by this petitioner is found simple in nature. Similarly situated other co-accused persons namely Laljit Manjhi @ Loaljit Manjhi and Raj Manjhi @ Raj @ Nada have already been granted the privilege of anticipatory bail by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 02.04.2025 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 17081 of 2025. Petitioner claims clean antecedent.

5. Learned counsel for the informant opposed the bail petition.

6. Considering the nature of injury caused by this petitioner, clean antecedent of the petitioner and other circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender within eight weeks from today, let the petitioner, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-VI, Nawada in connection with Hisua P.S. Case No. 478 of 2023, subject to the conditions laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) AjayMishra/- U T