Bisho Manjhi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.86068 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-306 Year-2025 Thana- SHEKHPURA District- Sheikhpura ====================================================== Bisho Manjhi Son of Darogi Manjhi R/o - Jamalpur, Sheikhpura, P.S.- Sheikhpura, Dist.- Sheikhpura.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mrs. Priya Kumari, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, APP.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 09-01-2026 Heard Mrs. Priya Kumari, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Bhanu Pratap Singh, learned APP for the State.

Petitioner seeks regular bail in connection with Sheikhpura P.S. Case No. 306 of 2025 dated 13.10.2025 registered for the offences punishable under sections 331(4), 305 and 3(5)of the BNS.

The main submissions advanced by the petitioner's counsel are that though the petitioner is named in the FIR and the informant alleged that the petitioner along with other coaccused persons entered his house and looted household articles, cash and ornaments etc. but after the petitioner was arrested the police failed to recover any looted article from the petitioner's possession or his house, in fact the petitioner used to work for the informant on daily wages and in between them, a dispute

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.86068 of 2025(2) dt.09-01-2026 2/2 with regard to the payment of wages arose due to which the petitioner has been falsely implicated by the informant. It is lastly submitted that petitioner bears no criminal antecedent and has been languishing in jail since 14.09.2025. Learned APP for the State has opposed the bail prayer of the petitioner.

In the facts and circumstances of this case and considering the above submissions and averments made in this petition mainly the petitioner's fair and clean antecedent and coupled with the fact that police failed to recover any looted article from the possession of the petitioner or his house after the petitioner was taken into custody as stated by the petitioner's counsel, this Court is inclined to release the petitioner on bail. Accordingly, let the petitioner named-above 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 court concerned in connection with Sheikhpura P.S. Case No. 306 of 2025.

(Shailendra Singh, J) siddharthkr/- U T