Ashok Paswan v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65866 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-47 Year-2024 Thana- BANGAWON District- Saharsa ====================================================== 1.

Ashok Paswan, male, aged about 45 years, son of Hakar Paswan, resident of village- Bangaon, Ward No. 17, P.S.- Bangaon, District- Saharasa 2.

Runa Devi, aged about 35 years, wife of Ashok Paswan, resident of villageBangaon, Ward No. 17, P.S.- Bangaon, District- Saharasa ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Pramod Mishra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Bharat Bhushan, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 17-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioners apprehend arrest in connection with Bangaon PS Case No.47 of 2024 dated 02.05.2024, instituted under Sections 341, 323, 325, 307, 504, 506/34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The allegation against the petitioner no.1 is that he pushed the father of the informant due to which he fell down and thereafter co-accused, Pravesh Paswan, assaulted the father of the informant by means of Mungari and bamboo.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that there is specific allegation of assault against the son of the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65866 of 2025(2) dt.17-09-2025 2/2 petitioner, namely, Pravesh Paswan. The petitioners have been implicated in this case only because they are the parents of Pravesh Paswan. There is no specific allegation against the petitioners. Further submission is that the police after investigation submitted charge-sheet against Pravesh Paswan only and the petitioners were not sent up for trial but the learned Magistrate differing with the report of the police took cognizance against the petitioners also. Lastly, it is submitted that the petitioners have no criminal antecedents.

5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioners be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned ACJM-1, Saharsa, in Bangaon PS Case No.47 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Khatim Reza, J) J. Alam/- U T