Vikrant Yadav @ Vikrant Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.74703 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-653 Year-2025 Thana- RAMKRISHNANAGAR District- Patna ====================================================== Vikrant Yadav @ Vikrant Kumar Son of Devendra Prasad R/o Mohallah - Jaganpura, Near Samudaik Bahawan, P.S. - Ram Krishna Nagar, Dist. - Patna, Pin code - 800027(Bihar).
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Abhay Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Mukesh Kumar Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 30-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Section 37 of the Bihar Prohibition & Excise (Amendment) Act, 2022 as well as Sections 25(1-B)(a), 26, 27 and 35 of the Arms Act.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that he received an information that firing has occurred in Madhuban Colony. Accordingly, he reached the place of occurrence and saw 112 patrol team who had apprehended an accused in an intoxicated condition who identified himself as Munna Kumar. Further, the local residents reported that all FIR
2/4 named accused persons were engaged in scuffle and were firing. Further, Munna Kumar disclosed that 10-12 accused were consuming alcohol in a semi constructed house in Madhuban Colony and during the incident, Vikrant Yadav, Kamlesh Kumar and Chinni fired. Further, from the place of occurrence four cartridges along with four empty liquor bottles and one country made pistol were recovered.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case. It is next submitted that name of the petitioner transpired in the confessional statement of Munna Kumar who disclosed that it was petitioner along with two others who had resorted in firing. It is further submitted that petitioner was not arrested from the place of occurrence and confessional statement before police does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that petitioner is a graduate and in support of the same, a second supplementary affidavit has been filed annexing the provisional certificate of the petitioner issued by Magadh University. It is also submitted that petitioner presently is unemployed. It is reiterated and submitted that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and no one was injured in the firing. It is also submitted that petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate
3/4 in the investigation to prove his innocence.
5. Learned APP for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application.
6. Considering the submissions made by learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the fact that petitioner is a graduate and presently is unemployed, his name transpired based on confessional statement of apprehended accused and no one was injured in firing, let petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five 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 Ram Krishna Nagar P.S. Case No.653 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
7. It is made clear that one of the bailors of the petitioner shall be his father, namely, Devendra Prasad.
8. It is also made clear that if the Investigating Officer of the case files an application before the learned Trial Court bringing to its notice that petitioner, despite giving assurance to
4/4 this Court, is not cooperating in the investigation, in that event, the learned Trial Court shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bond of the petitioner after recording reasons.
9. Let a copy of this order be sent to the concerned Police Station through the learned Trial Court. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sanjay/- U T