Kewal Kumar @ Kewal v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.75906 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-656 Year-2024 Thana- MAJHAULIA District- West Champaran ====================================================== Kewal Kumar @ Kewal Son of Surendra Mahto R/O Village - Mohchhi Bankatwa, P.S.- Nautan, District - West Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Pandey For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tiwary ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 18-12-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 115(2), 118(2), 109, 303(2), 126(2), 351, 352 and 3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. It is next submitted that police after threadbare investigation came to a considered conclusion that petitioner is innocent and thus submitted final form exonerating the petitioner of the allegation as alleged in the FIR but then the learned trial court differing with the police report took cognizance and thus petitioner apprehends arrest. It is next submitted that when one investigating agency after

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.75906 of 2025(2) dt.18-12-2025 2/2 threadbare investigation came to a considered conclusion that petitioner is innocent, whether it would be prudent for a Court to send the petitioner to jail based on an order of cognizance which came to be taken based on the same police report which exonerated the appellant of the allegation.

4. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

5. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Majhauliya P.S. Case No.656/2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) B.N.S.S.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) amit/- U T