Md. Afridi @ Fiddi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.70217 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-235 Year-2025 Thana- BIHAR DistrictNalanda ====================================================== Md. Afridi @ Fiddi S/o Md. Mansur Alam @ Md. Mansur R/o Village/ Mohalla- Kashi Takiya, P.S.- Laheri, District- Nalanda ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Raj Kishor Prasad, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. M.K. Nirala, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 08-10-2025 Heard learned Advocate for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Bihar P.S. Case No. 235 of 2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 191(2), 191(3), 190, 109(1) of Bhartiya Nayay Sanhita, 2023 and Section 27 of the Arms Act.

3. Allegedly some of the persons found indulge in making indiscriminate firing on a public road in order to terorrise the public, which may have caused injury to the passerby.

4. Learned Advocate for the petitioner submitted that the F.I.R. has been instituted against the unknown

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.70217 of 2025(2) dt.08-10-2025 2/3 miscreants, however, during the course of investigation based upon CCTV footage, the name of other persons including the petitioner have been implicated. The petitioner is a student, aged about 19 years, and it has not been disclosed in the CCTV footage as to whether the petitioner has also specifically indulged in firing. Sending the petitioner behind the bar would ruin his career, besides the factum of his fair antecedent. The other accused persons have been allowed bail by the court below itself though that was regular in nature.

5. On the other hand, learned Advocate for the State, vehemently, opposed the bail application.

6. Regard being had to the submissions set forth by the learned Advocate for the respective parties and considering the tender age of the petitioner, coupled with the fact that none has sustained any injury as also the fair antecedent of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.70217 of 2025(2) dt.08-10-2025 3/3 at Biharsharif in connection with Bihar P.S. Case No. 235 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.

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