IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.9397 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-338 Year-2023 Thana- LALIT NARAYAN UNIVERSITY District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Lalu Yadav S/O Late Bindeshwar Yadav @ Vindeshwar Yadav R/O Azamgarh, Alafganj, P.O.- Lalbagh, P.S.- LNMU, Dist.- Darbhanga- 846004 ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar Patna ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Sitanshu Shekhar Singh For the Informant : Mr. AN Ahmad, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Zainul Abedin ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-04-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the informant as well as leanred Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case in connection with L.N.M.U P.S. Case No. 338 of 2023 dated 01.11.2023 registered for the offence/s punishable u/ss 147, 148, 149, 341, 323, 307, 452, 354B, 380, 427, 337, 338, 504, 506 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code. 3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and the co-accused persons along with 15-17 unknown miscreants are alleged to have entered the house of the informant and started abusing and assaulting him with the butt of pistol, lathi and Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.9397 of 2025(2) dt.04-04-2025 2/3 danda and they looted household articles and ornaments of the informant's wife. When the informant's wife and mother came to rescue, all the accused also abused and misbehaved with them. It is further alleged that the accused persons took the informant away from his house and Md. Anwarul Haque @ Nanki and Taurn Paswan fired on him but he fell down on the ground. Thereafter, they indiscriminately assaulted the informant with brick, stone and butt of pistol causing injury to him. It is further alleged that they also pelted stones on the house of the informant and damaged his motorcycle, CCTV camera and tried to set his house on fire with the help of gas cylinder. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. There is a delay of 16 days in lodging the FIR. It is further submitted that no one sustained firearm injury. There is no specific allegation against the petitioner. There is general and omnibus allegation against the petitioner. The petitioner is only member of mob. There is free fight between the parties. The co- accused Chhotu Yadav and Nawal Thakur sustained grievous and simple injuries respectively. Similarly situated co-accused has already been granted anticipatory bail by this court vide order dated 19.03.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 20917 of 2024. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.9397 of 2025(2) dt.04-04-2025 3/3 The petitioner has three criminal antecedents as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the anticipatory bail petition of the petitioner and submitted that the informant sustained multiple injuries including fractured injury of mandible. 6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the materials available on the recored, let the above named petitioner, in the event of his arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court concerned, Darbhanga in connection with L.N.M.U P.S. Case No. 338 of 2023, subject to conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. 7. The application stands allowed. guddukr/- (Chandra Prakash Singh, J) U T