Banti Kumar @ Abhishek Kumar @ Banti Kumar Patel v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.78887 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-89 Year-2024 Thana- CHAND District- Kaimur (Bhabua) ====================================================== Banti Kumar @ Abhishek Kumar @ Banti Kumar Patel Son of Ram Pal Singh R/Vill-Bahadurra, P.S.-Chand, Dist-Kaimur (Bhabua) ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Rakesh Kumar Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Anand Kishore Choudhary ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 17-01-2025

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 147, 148, 149, 341, 342, 323, 325, 307, 332, 333, 353, 504, 171(c), 171(F) and 427 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that during Lok Sabha elections, an information was received that miscreants were creating disturbance at Booth No. 62, accordingly, the police force reached when hundred of accused persons surrounded the force and pelted stones causing injury to constable, Mithlesh, Suraj and Satendra, further, 8 accused were apprehended from the spot and local Chowkidar based on videography identified 17 accused persons including the petitioner.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78887 of 2024(2) dt.17-01-2025 2/2

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner next submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is also submitted that no specific allegation is alleged against the petitioner. It is next submitted that petitioner resides nearby to the place of occurrence and on hearing ruckus created by miscreants, petitioner out of inquisitiveness, went to the place of occurrence when he came to be implicated. It is also submitted that the petitioner is not a criminal, but is a student.

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

6. 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 trial court 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 Chand P.S. Case No. 89 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T