Shubham Kumar Singh @ Prabhat Ranjan v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.89107 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-142 Year-2022 Thana- BENIPATTI District- Madhubani ====================================================== Shubham Kumar Singh @ Prabhat Ranjan Son of Jit Narayan Singh Resident of Village - Shahpur, P.S. - Benipatti, District - Madhubani ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Abhay Shanker Singh, Adv.
For the State :
Mr. Madhura Nand Jha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 16-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 354B, 325, 307, 379/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. The allegation in the FIR is that the petitioner tried to misbehave with the daughter of the informant aged about 19 years and also tried to outrage her modesty. Further, there is also an allegation of assaulting her upon resistance provided by her due to which she sustained injuries.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits, at the outset, that the FIR has been lodged after an inordinate delay of 13 days for which no explanation, much less plausible, has been tendered on behalf of the informant. The further submission is that the daughter of the informant had actually received accidental injuries which
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.89107 of 2024(5) dt.16-07-2025 2/2 would be evident from the injury report which indicates some nasal and ear bleeding and a laceration on nose and that out of the three injuries, two are simple in nature, whereas only one is said to be grievous. It is next submitted that the said injury report does not corroborate the oral allegations and no offence under Section 307 of the Indian Penal code is made out. This petitioner is working with ICICI Bank and on the alleged date and time of the accident, he was not present at or even near the place of occurrence. It is lastly submitted that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent and he undertakes to cooperate in the investigation or trial.
5. Learned APP for the State, however, opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.
6. In the facts and circumstances, let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within four weeks, be released 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 lower Court where the case is pending/successor Court in connection with Benipatti P.S. Case No. 142 of 2022, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438
(2) of the Cr.P.C/ 482 (2) of the BNSS, 2023. (Soni Shrivastava, J) divyanshi/- U T