Amit Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.71772 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-249 Year-2022 Thana- CHANPATIA District- West Champaran ====================================================== AMIT KUMAR Son of Sri Sanjay Kumar Resident of Mohalla - Fulwariya, Ward No.- 03, Near ICe Factory, Chakiya, P.S.- Chakiya, District - East Champaran.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Umesh Chandra Verma For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Humayou Ahmad Khan ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 16-03-2023 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 392 of the Indian Penal Code pending in the learned court below. Allegation against the petitioner is that he along with other unknown person of the age group of 25-26 years with faces covered with masks entered into the centre, and on the point of pistol looted away Rs.1,12,535/- and laptop bag containing documents relating to U.T.I. and L.I.C. and fled away on their Apache/Pulsar motorcycle without registration number. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.71772 of 2022(2) dt.16-03-2023 2/2 case. He further submits that the alleged does not belongs to the petitioner. He submits that the petitioner is made accused on the basis of the confessional statement of the co-accused. He further submits that petitioner has got one criminal antecedent as stated in para-3 of the bail application.

Per contra, learned APP for the State vehemently opposing the bail application and submitted that the allegation levelled as the petitioner is serious in nature. Hence, he does not deserve anticipatory bail.

Considering the nature of the offence, I am not inclined to enlarge the petitioner on bail in connection with Chanpatia P.S. Case No. 249/2022. Accordingly, his prayer for anticipatory bail is hereby rejected.

(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) ajay/- U T