Suli Yadav @ Sulli Yadav v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.68137 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-107 Year-2016 Thana- BARH District- Patna ====================================================== Suli Yadav @ Sulli Yadav S/O Siyasharan Yadav Resident of VillageDumriya, P.S.- Barh, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Raj Kishor Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Navin Kumar Pandey, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 09-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. Petitioner seeks regular bail in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 302, 120B/34 of the Indian Penal Code and section 27 of the Arms Act.

3. As per FIR, while the informant along with his brother and other persons were coming back on his Marshal vehicle, the same was stopped by the co-accused Ashok Yadav. Thereafter, this co-accused forcibly pulled informant's brother namely, Narendra Kumar @ Lala Yadav and exhorted other accused persons to open fire on him. It is alleged that this petitioner and other co-accused Devi Yadav, Fulchand Yadav, Bhairo Yadav, Lalindra Yadav and Dilip Yadav, fired upon the brother of the informant, due to which, he died.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.68137 of 2025(5) dt.09-12-2025 2/2 case due to political rivalry. Co-accused, namely, Devi Yadav, Fulchand Yadav and Lalindra Yadav, with similar allegation, have been acquitted by the trial court vide judgment dated 23.7.2018, passed in Sessions Trial No. 320 of 2017. Similarly situated co-accused Ashok Yadav has already been allowed bail by a co-ordinate bench of this Court vide order passed in Cr.Mis.No. 33276/2021. Petitioner is in custody since 20.9.2024.

5. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail. He submits that petitioner is one of the assailants of the deceased and he has got four criminal antecedents.

6. Considering the gravity of accusation as well as the materials collected during course of investigation, petition for bail of this petitioner is dismissed. Since, petitioner is in custody, let the trial be expedited and concluded preferably within a year.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Shashi U T