Kunal Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.77730 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-272 Year-2025 Thana- NARHATT District- Nawada ====================================================== Kunal Kumar S/O Vijay Singh @ Vijay Kumar R/O Village- Khanwa, P.S.- Narhat, District- Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shankar Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Aditya Narayan Singh.1, APP For the Informant :

Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 02-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned APP for the State as well as learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant.

2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 331(4) and 305(a) of B.N.S., 2023.

3. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant with an allegation that on the night of occurrence, informant was sleeping in his house when he heard a noise from another room and he woke up when an accused started fleeing and on alarm, the accused was apprehended by neighbour and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.77730 of 2025(2) dt.02-12-2025 2/3 from his possession, one Payal, one ring and Rs.5300/- in cash was recovered.

4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that petitioner and the daughter of the informant were known to each other and the daughter of the informant on the night of the occurrence had called the petitioner to meet her. Accordingly, the petitioner had gone to meet the daughter of the informant on a sly, when informant came to know about the presence of the petitioner in his house and thereafter the informant caught him and assaulted him brutally. It is submitted that petitioner and the informant are co-villagers and are known to each other but then in the FIR, an impression has been given as if the informant was not knowing the petitioner.

It is reiterated and submitted that since petitioner had gone to meet the daughter of the informant, as such, he was brutally assaulted. It is also submitted that even a case from the side of the petitioner being Narhat P.S. Case No.273 of 2025 has been instituted.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.77730 of 2025(2) dt.02-12-2025 3/3 was not done.

5. The learned APP and the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant oppose the anticipatory bail application.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the fact that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent, 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 bond 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 Narhat P.S. Case No.272 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sanjay/- U T