IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.9736 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-931 Year-2024 Thana- SONEPUR District- Saran ====================================================== 1. Jitendra Ray @ Jitendra Kumar Ray S/o- Bijali Ray @ Bijali Prasad Ray Resident of village- Gobind Chak @ Govindchak PS-Sonpur @ Sonepur District - Saran 2. Vinod Kumar Thakur @ Khaku Kumar S/o- Late Kameshwar Thakur Resident of village- Gobind Chak @ Govindchak PS-Sonpur @ Sonepur District - Saran 3. Manoj Thakur S/o- Late Kameshwar Thakur Resident of village- Gobind Chak @ Govindchak PS-Sonpur @ Sonepur District - Saran ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Manish Chandra Gandhi, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Md. Mushtaque Alam, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER 2 07-03-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioners apprehend arrest in connection with Sonpur @ Sonepur P.S. Case No. 931 of 2024 dated 08.11.2024, instituted for the offence punishable under Sections 189(3), 191(1), 191(2), 132, 221 (not mentioned in the impugned order), 223, 285, 292, 352, 351(2), 351(3) (wrongly typed 351(5) in the impugned order) of the Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita, 2023. 3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on 8.11.2024, at about 9.45 A.M., informant who is Police Officer got information that some people have forcibly blocked the Chapra- Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.9736 of 2025(2) dt.07-03-2025 2/3 Patna main road due to which plying of vehicle has been badly disrupted. The reason for blockade was said to be an accidental death of a local boy due to which road was blocked for about two hours. People who had blocked the road were identified by local Chaowkidar and also from videography. The people responsible for blockade of road also abused and threatened on duty policemen who were trying to unblock the road. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and they have been falsely implicated in this case. It is submitted that F.I.R. has been lodged against seven named accused persons and 200 unknown persons. The petitioners are F.I.R. named accused persons. It is submitted that there is no allegation of any assault, only for disrupting the traffic of the area, the petitioners have been made accused in this case. Lastly, it has been submitted that petitioner no. 1 has two criminal cases against him and petitioner nos. 2 and 3 have no criminal antecedents. 5. Learned A.P.P. has opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioners. 6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in the event of arrest / surrender of the petitioners within a period Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.9736 of 2025(2) dt.07-03-2025 3/3 of six weeks from today, in connection with Sonpur @ Sonepur P.S. Case No. 931 of 2024, they shall be released on anticipatory bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M., Saran, Chapra, subject to condition as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.. prabhat/- (Khatim Reza, J) U T