Patna High Court – Orders
Yugal Sao @ Jimedari vs The State Of Bihar on 6 August, 2025
Author: Shailendra Singh
Bench: Shailendra Singh
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.32512 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-25 Year-2020 Thana- ROSHANGANJ District- Gaya ====================================================== Yugal Sao @ Jimedari, Son of Ramchandra Sao, R/o Village- Chhuchhiya, P.S.- Dibra, District- Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Anil Kumar Sinha, Adv. Mr. Arvind Kumar, Adv. For the State : Mr. Binod Kumar No. 3, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SHAILENDRA SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-08-2025
Heard Mr. Anil Kumar Sinha, learned counsel for the
petitioner and Mr. Binod Kumar No. 3, learned APP for the
State.
2. Petitioner seeks regular bail in connection with
Roshanganj (Bankebazaar) P.S. Case No. 25 of 2020 dated
19.02.2020 registered for the offences punishable under sections
147, 148, 149, 120B, 121A, 124A and 427 of the Indian Penal
Code, sections 3 and 4 of the Explosive Substances Act, and
sections 10, 13, 16, 18 and 20 of the Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act and section 17 of the C.L.A. Act.
3. The main submissions advanced by petitioner’s
counsel are that though the instant matter relates to serious
occurrence of exploding a Government school allegedly
committed by the extremists, however, against this petitioner,
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there is no material or evidence to connect him to the alleged
occurrence and he has been made accused mainly on the basis
of some secret information given by the Government agency,
co-villagers and local press reporters but during the course of
investigation, none of them has specifically revealed the name
of this petitioner as being involved in the alleged explosion. It is
further submitted that a group of 31 named and 30 to 40
unnamed extremists is alleged to have committed the alleged
occurrence of exploding the school building, who are said to
have been led by the main co-accused Sandeep Yadav @ Vijay
Yadav and any specific role of this petitioner in the commission
of the alleged occurrence has not been revealed in the FIR. It is
lastly submitted that the petitioner has been languishing in jail
since 18.11.2024 and has fair and clean antecedent.
4. Though learned APP for the State has opposed the
prayer of the petitioner but after perusing the case diary, he
accepted that there is no statement of any witness under section
161 of Cr.P.C., in which the name of this petitioner has been
revealed in the alleged occurrence.
5. Heard both the sides and perused the FIR and the
case diary of this case. Though the instant matter relates to
serious offences relating to exploding of the Government school
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building, which is said to have been committed by a group of
more than 60 persons of an extremist organization and the
petitioner’s name also find place in the FIR but the basis of
making him an accused, is merely on some sources but during
the course of investigation, the police failed to bring the sources
in the form of evidence, so, in view of this fact as well as
considering the petitioner’s fair and clean antecedent and also
completion of investigation against him, this Court is inclined to
release him on bail. Accordingly, let the petitioner named-above
be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/-
(Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount
each to the satisfaction of the court concerned in connection
with Roshanganj (Bankebazaar) P.S. Case No. 25 of 2020, on
the condition that if the trial court is going to proceed with trial
of the petitioner, then he will be released after framing of
charges upon him, if the charges are not framed for any legal
reason in next one month then the petitioner shall be released as
per above order.
(Shailendra Singh, J)
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