Abhilash Kumar Bhat @ Abhilash Bhat @ Fantush Bhat v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.1991 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-90 Year-2025 Thana- VIDYAPATINAGAR District- Samastipur ====================================================== 1.
Abhilash Kumar Bhat @ Abhilash Bhat @ Fantush Bhat S/o- Sushil Bhat @ Sushil Kumar Bhat Village- Bazidpur PS-Vidyapatinagar Distt-Samastipur 2.
Abhishek Bhat @ Abhishek Kumar @ Abhishek Kumar Bhat @ Sonu S/oLate Dharmradev Bhat @ Dharmdeo Bhat @ Dharamdev Bhatt VillageBazidpur PS-Vidyapatinagar Distt-Samastipur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Jitendra Nr. Sinha, Advocate For the State :
Ms. Rina Sinha, APP For the Informant :
Kumar Praveen, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 07-04-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned counsel for the informant and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Vidyapatinagar P.S. Case No. 90 of 2025, instituted under Sections 329(4), 324(4), 326(f), 109(1), 118(1), 3(5) of the B.N.S.
3. As per the prosecution case, petitioners are alleged to have ignited gas cylinder after entering into the kitchen of informant. On protest, they pushed the informant into the fire causing burn injuries to her.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case. Both the parties are agnates and there is land dispute
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.1991 of 2026(3) dt.07-04-2026 2/2 between the parties. Injury on the injured is simple in nature. There is delay of 16 days in registering the F.I.R. without any plausible explanation. Earlier, father of the informant had also falsely lodged F.I.R. against Petitioner No. 2. Petitioner No. 1 has no criminal antecedent and Petitioner No. 2 has one criminal antecedent. Petitioners undertake to co-operate in the investigation and trial.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel for the informant oppose the prayer for anticipatory bail.
6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, submission of learned counsel for the parties and there is land dispute between the parties who are agnates, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioners be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M. II, Dalsingsarai, Samastipur in connection with Vidyapatinagar P.S. Case No. 90 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482 (2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita (B.N.S.S.), 2023.
(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) rakhi/- U T