Patna High CourtCR. MISC./81005/2024bail rejected

Krishna Kanu @ Krishna Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

2025-03-05Mr. Justice Rajiv Roy2 pages

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.81005 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-433 Year-2023 Thana- SAHPUR District- Bhojpur ====================================================== Krishna Kanu @ Krishna Kumar Son of Shailu Kanu @ Shail Kumar Kanu Resident of Village- P.S.- Shahpur, Distt.- Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Anil Kumar Singh, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Shyameshwar Dayal, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV ROY ORAL ORDER 05-03-2025 Heard Mr. Anil Kumar Singh, learned counsel for the petitioner and the State.

2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Shahpur P.S. Case No. 433 of 2023 registered for the offences under section 379 of the Indian Penal Code and later on added Section 411 of the IPC lodged on 17.09.2023 by the informant, Dipu Kumar Gupta.

3. As per the prosecution story, the motorcycle of the informant was stolen on 16.09.2023 which he came to know on 17.09.2023 and accordingly, the FIR.

4. Subsequently, the motorcycle was recovered from the bushes at Kirani Chowk of the village and name of the petitioner came.

5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that his

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.81005 of 2024(2) dt.05-03-2025 2/2 name has come in the confessional statement and only because he has criminal antecedent, got implicated.

6. Learned APP, Mr. Jitendra Kumar Singh opposes the prayer submitting that the FIR has been lodged in September 2023 and only after one of the accused was granted bail, the present petition has been filed belatedly and more than one year after the FIR was lodged.

7. Taking into account the aforesaid facts and the role of the petitioner, it would be appropriate that he seek bail.

8. The anticipatory bail application stands rejected.

9. If the petitioner surrenders within a period of four weeks, the Court concerned shall take up the matter and dispose it of preferable on the same day.

(Rajiv Roy, J) Vijay Singh/- U T