Shakuntala Devi v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.67609 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-112 Year-2025 Thana- SAKURABAD District- Jehanabad ====================================================== Shakuntala Devi Son of Sri Rajendra Yadav R/o Village - Panditpur, P.S. -Shakurabad, District - Jehanabad(Bihar).
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ranjeet Tiwary, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Md. Ataur Rahman, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 23-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State .
2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 126 (2), 115 (2), 109, 303(2), 352, 351 (2) and 3 (5) of BNS.
3 . The prosecution case , in brief, is that informant namely , Dinesh Yadav alleged that on 02.05.2025, all the F.I.R. named accused persons including this petitioner came and started abusing and assaulting informant and when informant fell down , this petitioner assaulted on the head of informant with brick . It is further alleged that accused persons snatched cash of Rs. 2,000/- and gold hanumani locket from informant.
4. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that petitioner is innocent and has not committed no offence as
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.67609 of 2025(2) dt.23-09-2025 2/2 alleged. Both the parties are pattidars and there is dispute over partition of ancestral property between them. Allegation of assault is general and omnibus against this petitioner. Rest of the allegations are ornamental in nature to make the case grave . Petitioner claims clean antecedent.
5 . Learned counsel for the State opposed the bail petition .
6 Considering the aforesaid facts, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate Jehanabad in connection with Shakurabad P.S. Case No. 112 of 2025 , subject to the conditions laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 .
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Koushik/- U T