1 2025:CGHC:41264 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 6457 of 2025 Dhananjay Gritlahre S/o Dharam Raj Gritlahre, Aged About 25 Years R/o Mahasati Ward Bhatapara, Police Station - Bhatapara City, District Balodabazar - Bhatapara (C.G.) ... Applicant versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through Police Station – Bhatapara City, District – Balodabazar-Bhatapara (C.G.) …. Non-applicant For Applicant : Ms. Hamida Siddiqui, Advocate. For Non-applicant/State : Mr. Bharat Gulbani, Panel Lawyer. Hon’ble Shri Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Order on Board 14.08.2025 1. This is the First bail application filed under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of regular bail to the applicants arrested in connection with Crime No. 99/2025 registered at Police Station – Bhatapara City, District – Balodabazar-Bhatapara (C.G.) for the offence punishable under Sections 296, 351(2), 119(1) and 109 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (BNS). 2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 21.02.2025 at 8.00 AM the complainant Mani Shankar Kurre along with his two companions namely Yashwant Tandon and Girish Kumar Tandon had gone out for catering work. All three of them were returning home at 1.00 AM on RAJSHEKHAR SONI Digitally signed by RAJSHEKHAR SONI 2 22.02.2025 and were unloading goods when the applicant came to demand Rs. 10,000/- lent by him to the brother of the complainant (Shyam Kurre). On refusal to give money the petitioner abused mother and sister of the complainant in obscene language and threatened to kill them and started hitting his brother due to which his brother has deep knife wounds on his neck, chest and both hands and was bleeding. The Police had also seized a steel knife with plastic handle of length 11 3/2 inches, steel blade length 7 inches and handle length 4.5 inches, blade width 1.5 inches from possession of applicant. Hence, this application. 3. Learned counsel appearing for the applicants submits that the applicants are innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is submitted that the applicants are in jail since 25.02.2025, and the conclusion of the trial shall take quite long time. Therefore, he prays for grant of bail. 4. On the other hand, learned State counsel, opposes the bail application and submits that the applicant is said to have assaulted the injured with a sharp knife on his neck, chest and both hands, due to which he sustained various injuries, and as per the MLC Report and the doctor’s opinion, the injuries are grievous in nature and dangerous to life, furthermore, Police had also seized a steel knife with plastic handle of length 11 3/2 inches, steel blade length 7 inches and handle length 4.5 inches, blade width 1.5 inches from possession of applicant. As such, the bail application deserves to be rejected. 5. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the case diary. 3 6. Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances of the case and also considering the fact that the applicant is said to have assaulted the injured with a sharp knife on his neck, chest and both hands, due to which he sustained various injuries, and as per the MLC Report and the doctor’s opinion, the injuries are grievous in nature and dangerous to life, furthermore, Police had also seized a steel knife with plastic handle of length 11 3/2 inches, steel blade length 7 inches and handle length 4.5 inches, blade width 1.5 inches from possession of applicant, therefore, this Court is of the opinion that it is not a fit case to enlarge the applicants on regular bail. 7. Accordingly, this bail application of applicant – Dhananjay Gritlahre involved in Crime No. 99/2025 registered at Police Station – Bhatapara City, District – Balodabazar-Bhatapara (C.G.) for the offence punishable under Sections 296, 351(2), 119(1) and 109 of the BNS, is rejected at this stage. 8. Needless to say that the trial Court concerned is at liberty to proceed and conclude the trial expeditiously. 9. Office is directed to send a certified copy of this order to the trial Court concerned for necessary information and compliance forthwith. Sd/- (Ramesh Sinha) Chief Justice Rajshekhar