Amit Kumar Ranjan v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Criminal Appeal (SJ) No.746 of 2018 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -495 Year- 2017 Thana -KHAZANIHAT District- PURNIA ======================================================
1. Amit Kumar Ranjan S/o Late kaladhar Ram, R/o Village- Rajoun, P.S.- Medhura, Meharama, District- Godda, Jharkhand. .... .... Appellant/s
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1. The State of Bihar .... .... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Appellant/s : Mr. Abdul Hakim, Adv. For the Respondent/s : Mr. Sri Sadanand Paswan, SPP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIRENDRA KUMAR ORAL ORDER 15-03-2018 Heard learned counsel for the parties.
This is an appeal under Section 14(A)(2) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 against the refusal of prayer for bail by the learned Vth Addl. District & Sessions Judge-cum-Special Judge, S.C./S.T. Act, Purnea, in connection with Special SC/ST No.227 of 2017, C.I.S. No........./2017, arising out of K.Hat (Maranga) P.S.Case No.495 of 2017 registered under Sections 302,201/34 of the Indian Penal Code, and Section 3(2)(v) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
The FIR would reveal that the daughter of the informant committed suicide in the hostel of Vidya Vihar Institute of Technology, Maranga in the district of Purnea
Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.746 of 2018 (2) dt.15-03-2018 where she was a student. The informant suspected that the Institute Management was discriminating her daughter as she was a member of scheduled caste. Hence, she committed suicide. During investigation, it revealed that the deceased was in talking terms with the appellant who was student at Bhopal.
Considering that there is no direct nexus that suicide was result of abetment of the appellant, let the appellant, above named, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/- (Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court-below where the case is pending in connection with the aforesaid case, with condition that the appellant shall fully cooperate with the trial of the case, failing which the court below shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bond of the appellant.
Accordingly, the appeal stands allowed.
(Birendra Kumar, J) Nitesh/- U T