Bhola @ Suraj @ Suraj Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Criminal Appeal (SJ) No.1204 of 2018 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -105 Year- 2017 Thana -DIGHA District- PATNA ===========================================================
1. Bhola @ Suraj @ Suraj Kumar, Son of Vinod Rai, Resident of VillageMakhdumpur, Digha Ghat, Police Station- Digha, District- Patna. .... .... Appellant/s
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1. The State of Bihar.
.... .... Respondent/s =========================================================== Appearance :
For the Appellant/s : Mr. Arbind Kumar Singh For the Respondent/s : Mr. Binay Krishna, SPP 245 =========================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE BIRENDRA KUMAR ORAL JUDGMENT Date: 11-05-2018 Heard learned counsel for the parties.
This is an appeal under Section 14(A)(2) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, against refusal of the prayer for anticipatory bail by the learned Vth Additional Sessions Judge- cum- Special Judge, Patna in connection with Digha P.S. Case No. 105/2017 registered under Sections 341, 323, 504, 506 and 354 of the Indian Penal Code as well as Sections 3(1)(x) of the SC/ST Act.
Submission is that the allegation against the appellant and others is of commission of abuse and assault to the informant by committing house trespass for the reason that the appellant was pressurizing for withdrawal of earlier criminal case lodged for murder of the father of the informant vide Patna Traffic P.S. Case No. 74/2016. Contention is that Annexure-2 is the F.I.R. of the aforesaid
Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.1204 of 2018 dt.11-05-2018 2/2 Traffic Case which was registered against unknown motorcycle rider for offences under Sections 279 and 304A of the Indian Penal Code. The appellant was not an accused of that case. Hence, there was no reason or motive for the appellant to go to the house of the informant. Moreover, the appellant has got no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the appellant, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of the order, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.
20,000/- (rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending in connection with the aforesaid case, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure as well as condition that the appellant shall fully cooperate with the investigation and trial of the case, failing which the court below shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bond of the appellant.
Accordingly, the impugned order is set aside and the appeal stands allowed.
(Birendra Kumar, J.) Rakhi AFR/NAFR CAV DATE N.A.
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