Patna High Court – Orders
Prakash Singh @ Kariya Singh vs The State Of Bihar on 7 February, 2025
Author: Anjani Kumar Sharan
Bench: Anjani Kumar Sharan
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.88679 of 2024
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-68 Year-2024 Thana- TARABARI District- Araria
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1. Prakash Singh @ Kariya Singh S/o Moti Singh @ Moti Chandra Singh R/o
Village Ward No 9, Kotahpur, shoirgaon, Ps- Kursakanta, District- Araria
2. Arvind Singh @ Arvind Kumar Singh S/o Moti Singh @ Moti Chandra
Singh R/o Village Ward No 9, Kotahpur, shoirgaon, Ps- Kursakanta, District-
Araria
3. Sonu Singh @ Sonu Kumar @ Sonu Kumar Singh S/o Pramod Singh @
Prakash Singh R/o Village Ward No 9, Kotahpur, shoirgaon, Ps- Kursakanta,
District- Araria
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Samrendra Kumar Jha, Advocate
Ms. Pragya Jha, Advocate
For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Lalan Kumar, APP
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN
ORAL ORDER
2 07-02-2025
Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned
Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered
for the offence punishable u/s 147, 148, 149, 448, 341, 323, 324,
326, 307, 332, 333, 354(B), 436, 427, 379, 353, 504, 506 of IPC
and 27 of Arms Act.
3. As per the prosecution case, in relation to the Tarabari
P.S. Case No.67 of 2024, police recovered kidnapped Chandni
Kumari and arrested the accused Mintu Singh and kept them
under the supervision of the police officials in the police station.
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Both Mintu Singh and Chandni Kumari committed suicide by
hanging themselves. When the relatives of the deceased persons
got the information about the incident, several persons including
the petitioners gathered along with deadly weapons and brutally
assaulted the police official and also damaged their vehicles by
setting them on fire.
4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that
petitioners are quite innocent and have committed no offence.
They have been falsely implicated in this case. No such
occurrence, in the manner as alleged, has ever taken place. No
specific overt act is attributed against the petitioners. They were
merely member of mob and not involved in the present
occurrence. Similarly situated co-accused persons have been
granted anticipatory bail by this Court (Annexure-2 of the bail
application). Petitioners have no criminal antecedent as
mentioned in para 3 of the bail application.
5. Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for bail.
6. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case,
let the above named petitioners, be released on bail, in the event
of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below
within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond
of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) each with two
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sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned
court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in
connection with Tarabari P.S. Case No.68 of 2024, subject to the
conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.
(Anjani Kumar Sharan, J)
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