Sudhanshu Kumar @ Chhotu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.83009 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-150 Year-2024 Thana- PATAHI District- East Champaran ====================================================== 1.
Sudhanshu Kumar @ Chhotu Kumar S/o Rakesh Kuar @ Rakesh Kumar R/o vill - Parsauni Kapoot, P.S. - Patahi, Distt.- East Champaran 2.
Vimal Devi W/o Rakesh Kuar @ Rakesh Kumar R/o vill - Parsauni Kapoot, P.S. - Patahi, Distt.- East Champaran 3.
Mukesh Kumar @ Mukesh Kuar S/o Late Chanar Dev Kuar @ Late Chandra Dev Kumar R/o vill - Parsauni Kapoot, P.S. - Patahi, Distt.- East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Abhishek Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Pranav Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 22-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 302, 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3.The allegation in the first information report is that the grand daughter of the informant has been murdered by the accused Mukesh Kumar, who is the son-in-law of the informant and the father of the deceased and has spread the rumour that she has died due to electric shock.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the allegation made by the informant, who is the father-in-law of the
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83009 of 2024(6) dt.22-07-2025 2/3 petitioner no. 3 Mukesh Kumar, is totally motivated on account of the fact that his daughter i.e. the wife of Mukesh Kumar had died 12 years back and he carries an impression that the petitioner no. 3 was responsible for her death. As a matter of fact, the daughter of the petitioner, who is deceased in this case, has died due to electric current and shock and neither in the FIR nor during the investigation any motive whatsoever has been alleged against accused persons as to why petitioner no. 3 would kill his own daughter in association with his agnates. Further, the inquest report and the postmortem report both demonstrate that the death of the deceased has been caused by electric current.
The statement of the sister of the deceased has also been recorded during the course of investigation who has also supported that fact that the deceased had gone to the hand pump to bring water and in course of the same and she got an electric shock at that place whereafter she was taken for treatment but she died. So far as petitioner no. 1 and 2 are concerned, it has been submitted that they are only agnates of petitioner no. 3 who have been roped in as an accused in the present case.
5. Learned APP for the State has opposed the application for anticipatory bail.
6. Considering all the above mentioned facts and
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.83009 of 2024(6) dt.22-07-2025 3/3 circumstances, let the above named petitioners in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Patahi P.S. Case No. 150 of 2024, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S.
(Soni Shrivastava, J) devendra/- U T