Ranjan Kumar Ram @ Ranjan Ram v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.83857 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-4 Year-2025 Thana- SIRISIYA District- West Champaran ====================================================== 1.
Ranjan Kumar Ram @ Ranjan Ram Son of Horil Ram Resident of Village - Khairwa Tola, Ward No, 1, P.S.- Chanpatia, District - West Champaran. 2.
Pankaj Kumar @ Pankaj Ram Son of Moti Lal Ram Resident of Village - Khairwa Tola, Ward No, 1, P.S.- Chanpatia, District - West Champaran. 3.
Basant Kumar Ram @ Basant Ram Son of Late Chandi Ram @ Chadi Ram Resident of Village - Khairwa Tola, Ward No, 1, P.S.- Chanpatia, District - West Champaran.
... ... Petitioner/s The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Alexander Ashok, Adv.
Mr. Jawed Akhtar, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Rajendra Singh Shastri, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 06-01-2026 Heard the parties.
2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Sirisiya P.S. Case No.4 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 121, 121(A), 122, 126(2), 115(2), 118, 109, 74, 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the BNS, 2023.
3. In the evening of the fateful day, while the informant along with his parents were sitting at their Darwaja, in the meanwhile, eleven named accused persons, including the petitioners variously armed came there and started assaulting. There is specific accusation against petitioner No. 3, who assaulted the informant along with co-accused Jitendra Ram,
2/4 whereas petitioner No. 2 assaulted the mother of the informant due to which she sustained a cut injury in her finger. It is further alleged that petitioner Nos. 1 and 3 snatched the valuables, besides further allegation against other accused persons.
4. Learned Advocate for the petitioners taking this Court through the FIR has contended that the alleged occurrence took place on 01.01.2025; however, the present FIR came to be instituted on 05.01.2025 without any plausible explanation for delay. Moreover, the informant allegedly sustained injury by farsa and other weapons at the hands of petitioner no. 3 and various other accused persons; however, the injury report does not corroborate the allegation. On instruction, it is submitted that the injury sustained to the informant is simple in nature. The false implication of the petitioners in the present case is also writ large that they were earlier also implicated in four other cases at the hands of the parents and other family members of the informant, but in all the cases, the police have not sent up the petitioners for trial, on being found no material against them. It is further contended that other co-accused persons, who are facing identical allegation, have been allowed the anticipatory bail by this Court in Cr. Misc. No. 81251 of
3/4 2025 vide order dated 09.12.2025 and the case of the petitioners is based on parity.
5. On the other hand, learned Advocate for the State vehemently opposed the bail application and submitted that the corresponding injuries to the injured clearly show the complicity of the petitioners in the crime.
6. Having considered the submissions advanced by the learned Advocates for the respective parties and taking note of the accusation against the petitioners, coupled with the delay in lodging of the FIR as well as the fact that in all the cases previously instituted by the parents of the informant, the petitioners were not sent up for trial on account of having been found no material, besides the fact that other co-accused persons, who are facing more or less similar allegation, have been allowed the privilege of anticipatory bail by this Court, let the petitioners abovenamed be released on bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, West Champaran, Bettiah in connection with Sirisiya P.S. Case No.4
4/4 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, with the further condition that one of the bailors shall be the own/close family members of the petitioners.
(Harish Kumar, J) Anjani/- U T