Pankaj Singh @ Pankaj Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.64882 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-7 Year-2022 Thana- NOWKOTHI GARHPURA DistrictBegusarai ====================================================== 1.

PANKAJ SINGH @ PANKAJ KUMAR SON OF LATE CHHATISH SINGH @ CHHATISH SINGH R/O VILL.- PAHSARA, P.S.- NAWKOTHI, DISTT.- BEGUSARAI 2.

BIJLI SINGH SON OF LATE CHHATISH SINGH @ CHHATISH SINGH R/O VILL.- PAHSARA, P.S.- NAWKOTHI, DISTT.- BEGUSARAI 3.

BHUSHAN SINGH SON OF LATE CHHATISH SINGH @ CHHATISH SINGH R/O VILL.- PAHSARA, P.S.- NAWKOTHI, DISTT.- BEGUSARAI ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sandip Kumar Gautam, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.H.A. Khan, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 13-03-2023 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable u/s 341, 323, 504, 506, 448, 308, 385, 387, 354, 379, 34 of the IPC.

Allegation against the petitioners is to demand extortion and also to assault the informant by means of hard and blunt substance.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that petitioners are quite innocent and have committed no offence. They have been falsely implicated in this case due to ulterior motive. No such occurrence, in the manner as alleged, has ever

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.64882 of 2022(5) dt.13-03-2023 2/2 taken place. The allegation leveled against the petitioners is not specific rather general and omnibus in nature. There is case and counter-case between the parties. The injuries are simple in nature, which is clear from Annexure-2. Petitioner no.2 has no criminal antecedent and petitioner no.1 and 3 have one criminal antecedent.

Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for bail by submitting that petitioners have demanded 'rangdari' from the informant.

Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, since the injuries are simple in nature, let the above named petitioners, be released on bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Nawkothi P.S. Case No.07 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) pallavi/- U T