Ravi Ranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.2491 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-422 Year-2022 Thana- GARDANIBAG District- Patna ====================================================== RAVI RANJAN KUMAR S/O SRI JITENDRA SINGH R/O VILLAGEGULZARBAGH KARPI, BEHIND HANUMAN MANDIR, P.S- KARPI, DISTT.- PATNA.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Arun Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mrs.Gulnar Begum ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 29-02-2024 Perused the Office Notes.

2.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he will remove the defect(s) pointed out by the office in course of day and prays to argue the matter on merit under the heading "Orders on Office Notes" itself.

3.

As prayed for, this case is being heard on merit. 4.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

5.

Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable u/s 379 of the IPC.

6.

As per the prosecution case, F.I.R. has been lodged against unknown persons for theft of motorcycle.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2491 of 2024(2) dt.29-02-2024 2/3 7.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is quite innocent and has committed no offence. He has been falsely implicated in this case due to ulterior motive. Petitioner is not named in this case and his name transpired in this case on the basis of his confessional statement in one Gardanibagh P.S. Case No.525/2022 but the said statement was taken forcibly by the police. The similarly situated co-accused, whose names transpired in this case on their confessional statements have been granted bail by the Court below itself. No incriminating article has been recovered from the conscious physical possession of the petitioner. Petitioner has one criminal antecedent of similar nature of offence and one of the coaccused has been granted anticipatory bail by a co-ordinate Bench of this Court in Cr. Misc. No.60312 of 2023 dated 16.10.2023.

8.

Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for bail. 9.

Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, since the injury was found simple in nature, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2491 of 2024(2) dt.29-02-2024 3/3 amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Gardanibagh P.S. Case No.422 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) pallavi/- U T