Shankar Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.88557 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-43 Year-2025 Thana- KHUSRUPUR District- Patna ====================================================== Shankar Singh S/o Krishna Singh Resident of Village - Lodipur Mansoorpur, P.S.- Khushrupur, District- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Rakesh Singh For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Anil Prasad Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NAWNEET KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 19-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Khusrupur P.S. Case No. 43 of 2025 for the offence under Sections 191(2), 191(3), 190, 103(1), 115(2) of the B.N.S. and Section 27 of the Arms Act.
3. The First Information Report contains allegations against 23 accused persons, stating that they arrived at the informant's residence armed with various weapons and began assaulting the occupants. Specific allegations have been made against four individuals who allegedly opened fire. Among them, Gautam Kumar is accused of shooting the informant's son, with the bullet striking him in the back. The victim
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.88557 of 2025(2) dt.19-12-2025 2/3 succumbed to his injuries while being taken for medical treatment.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is quite innocent and has falsely and wrongly been implicated in this case due to dirty village politics and personal grudge. The case of the defence is that the petitioner and informant are co-villagers and due to previous enmity he has been made accused in this case. The petitioner was neither present on the place of occurrence nor he has any role in the instant incident. Learned counsel further submits that other coaccused persons namely Vinay Bhushan Prasad @ Kakku Singh as well as Kameshwar Singh and Raj Kumar @ Raj Kumar Singh have been granted anticipatory bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 20.2025 in Cr. Misc. No. 35466 of 2025 with analogous case i.e. Cr. Misc. No. 37784 of 2025. One Bablu Kumar has also been granted bail by a Coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 11.08.2025 in Cr. Misc. No. 37116 of 2025. There is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioner of being member of mob.
6. Learned APP opposes the prayer for bail.
7. Keeping in view the aforesaid facts, this Court is inclined to extend them the privilege of anticipatory bail.
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.88557 of 2025(2) dt.19-12-2025 3/3 Accordingly, let the petitioner be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of this order, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Patna City, in connection with Khusrupur P.S. Case No. 43 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of B.N.S. S.
(Nawneet Kumar Pandey, J) A.K.V.//- U T