IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.85592 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-309 Year-2025 Thana- GURUA District- Gaya ====================================================== Shyam Sundar @ Munna @ Shyam Sundr Varma S/O Shiv Ram Singh Resident of vill-Sherpur, PS- Gurua Dist- Gaya (Bihar) ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Adarsh Singh For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Ajit Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 4 19-03-2026 1. Heard the parties. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Gurua P.S. Case No. 309 of 2025 dated 05.08.2025 registered for the offence under Section 127(1), 115(2), 132, 109, 303(2), 3(5) of the B.N.S. 2023. 3. As per the prosecution case on 04.08.2025 at about 7:20 P.M. the raiding party of the Electricity Department reached at the industrial premises of Shyamsundar @ Munna (i.e. petitioner) for inspection where they were stealing electricity by directly connecting a hook to all the three phases of the low voltage table. When the raiding party was videographing through mobile during inspection, the petitioner snatched the mobile phone and gold ring of Assistant Electrical Engineer, Sherghati and the petitioner’s son Raushan Kumar and the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.85592 of 2025(4) dt.19-03-2026 2/3 petitioner abused and attacked them with sticks. The informant who is Junior Engineer also suffered injury on his head and Assistant Electrical Engineer Mritunjay Kumar was hit with sticks on his left leg and left hand and one Mantosh Kumar who was assisting the raiding party was also hit with sticks and lathi due to which he sustained injury on his left finger. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case on the basis of a dispute with a private party with whom there was a scuffle on the same date of occurrence i.e. 04.08.2025 in which the petitioner was assaulted by the accused persons, who are other than the officials of the Electricity Department. The fardbyan of the petitioner was recorded in the hospital on 06.08.2025, however, formal F.I.R. was registered after delay on 17.08.2025. It has further been submitted that another F.I.R. has also been lodged against the petitioner for theft of electricity at the behest of private party stating that petitioner in his industrial premises was indulged in theft of electricity for which South Bihar Power Distribution Company has incurred loss of Rs. 7,05,337 /- 5. Considering the nature of allegation and the fact that petitioner along with others used criminal force against the Officials who arrived in his industrial premises for inspection on Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.85592 of 2025(4) dt.19-03-2026 3/3 information that the petitioner was indulged in theft of electricity and the Officials have also sustained injury and the petitioner is having criminal antecedent under the Arms Act also, accordingly, I am not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner. The same is rejected. praful/- (Anil Kumar Sinha, J) U T