Sunil Kumar Ranjan @ Bittu Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.86234 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-97 Year-2025 Thana- RIGA District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== Sunil Kumar Ranjan @ Bittu Kumar S/O Bhikau Ram Resident of villagePanchoar, Riga, P.S.- Riga, District- Sitamarhi ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ayush Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Ram Naresh Ray, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-03-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 109, 117(2), 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the BNS, 2023.
3. In compliance of the order dated 19.02.2026, the Investigating Officer of the case is present in the Court.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that while he was returning home, he was intercepted by the accused persons including the petitioner, further the petitioner said that on 26.02.2025 he has abused his father hence he will kill him and thereafter assaulted him by gandasa causing
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.86234 of 2025(4) dt.10-03-2026 2/3 injury on head, thereafter other accused persons assaulted him by rod, lathi etc. while Shail Devi assaulted Ravi by rod causing injury on hand, further petitioner caught his hand while Shiv Shankar and Guddu caught both his hands and Vikash started strangulating him and Shail Devi took his chain and Guddu snatched Rs. 10,000/-.
5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant, it is next submitted that even presuming what has been alleged is true without admitting then allegation against the petitioner is of assaulting the injured by gandasa causing injury on head, but then it is submitted that the injury suffered by the injured has been opined to be simple in nature and the wound is lacerated. It is also submitted that there is a dispute in between the parties relating to land, as such, an altercation had taken place in which both sides assaulted each other and from side of the petitioner, Riga P.S. Case No. 82 of 2025 came to be instituted, as such, the instant FIR is a counterblast.
6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner, but then fairly submits, based on instruction of the Investigating Officer, that the injury suffered by the injured has been opined to be simple
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.86234 of 2025(4) dt.10-03-2026 3/3 and the wound is lacerated.
7. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the fact that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the injury has been opined to be simple, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Riga P.S. Case No. 97 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS.
8. Accordingly, the instant anticipatory bail application is allowed.
9. The personal appearance of the Investigating Officer is dispensed with.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T