Sahendra Mahto v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.3167 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-136 Year-2024 Thana- MEDNI CHAUKI District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== Sahendra Mahto S/o- Jalim Mahto Village- Khawa Chandratola PO- Amarpur PS- Mednichauki District-Lakhisarai ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Santosh Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Nawal Kishore Prasad , APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 15-05-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State .
2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 341 , 323 , 379, 354 ( b ), 504, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code .
3 . As per the prosecution case , this petitioner is alleged to have disrobed the informant and molested her. It is further alleged that all the accused persons including this petitioner destroyed the hut of informant and assaulted informant and others.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that both
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3167 of 2025(3) dt.15-05-2025 2/3 the parties are gotias. From bare perusal of F.I.R., it is apparent that there is admitted land dispute between petitioner and informant and when informant was constructing house on the disputed land a scuffle took place between both the parties. He further submits that father of petitioner purchased 3.5 decimal of land on 25.10.2000 through registered sale deed from the husband of informant and got the land mutated in his name and constructed a room over the land. The husband of informant instituted Title suit No. 33 of 2006 for a declaration that land measuring area 3.5 decimals belongs to him and also a declaration of the sale deed dated 25.10.2000, to be fake and forged which is in the name of father of petitioner and the said suit was dismissed vide order dated 22.01.2013 . Rest of the allegations are ornamental in nature to make the case grave .
5. Learned counsel for the State opposes the bail petition of the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender within eight weeks from today, let the petitioner, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate 1st
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.3167 of 2025(3) dt.15-05-2025 3/3 Class Lakhisarai in connection with Medinichauki P.S. case No. 136 of 2024 , subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure . (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Koushik/- U T