1 2025:CGHC:52755 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 8579 of 2025 Roshan Lal Sahu S/o Dilipkumar Sahu Aged About 21 Years R/o Village Kutulbod Bhathagaon, House No. 64 Ward No. 11, P.S.- Lalbagh Tahsil- Dongargaon, District Rajnandgaon (C.G.) ... Applicant versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through Station House O1cer P.S. Lalbagh, District – Rajnandgaon (C.G.) …. Non-applicant For Applicant : Mr. Ravi Kumar Bodhani, Advocate appearing though video conferencing, as well as Mr. Ankush Soni, Advocate. For Non-applicant/State : Ms. Smriti Shrivastava, Panel Lawyer. Hon’ble Shri Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice Order on Board 29.10.2025 1. This is the Second bail application 8led under Section 483 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of regular bail to the applicant arrested in connection with Crime No. 84/2025 registered at Police Station – Lalbagh, District – Rajnandgaon (C.G.) for the o=ence punishable under Sections 296, 351(3) and 109(1) of the BNS. 2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that Rohit Kumar Sahu of vilalge Kutulbodh Bhathagaon, Police Station Lalgagh, had taken out a procession in the village after winning the election of Sarpanch, in which the injured Dharmesh Kumar Sahu, nephew of applicant Manoj Kumar Sahu, while dancing, collided with the applicant/accused Roshan Kumar, due to which the applicant while saying why are you pushing him, abused him in obscene language, threatened to kill him, RAJSHEKHAR SONI Digitally signed by RAJSHEKHAR SONI 2 and stabbed the injured in the stomach with a sharp knife, due to which blood started oozing from the stomach of the injured. On the registration of the FIR, the applicant was arrested by the Police. Hence, this application. 3. First bail application of the applicant was rejected by this Court vide order dated 20.06.2025 passed in MCRC No. 4704/2025. 4. Learned counsel appearing for the applicant submits that the applicant is innocent and has been falsely implicated in the present case. It is further submitted that the trial of the present case is going on and out of 7 prosecution witnesses, 2 witnesses have been examined before the trial Court and turned hostile. It is submitted that the applicant is in jail since 27.02.2025, and the conclusion of the trial shall take quite long time. Therefore, he prays for grant of bail. 5. On the other hand, learned State counsel, opposes the bail application and submits that the applicant is said to have assaulted the injured with knife and the injuries sustained by the injured on person i.e. a penetrative wound on the stomach, also as per the query report, the doctor has opined that the injuries found in the abdomen of the injured is grievous in nature and also dangerous to life, on which basis the 8rst bail application of the applicant has been rejected by this Court. Thus, the instant bail application deserves to be rejected. 6. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the case diary. 7. Considering the above submissions made by the learned counsel for the parties, as the trial is still going on and out of 7 prosecution 3 witnesses, 2 witnesses have been examined before the trial Court and turned hostile, the same cannot be a ground for releasing the applicant on bail as the same amounts to only tampering with the evidence. 8. 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 knife and the injuries sustained by the injured on person i.e. a penetrative wound on the stomach, also as per the query report, the doctor has opined that the injuries found in the abdomen of the injured is grievous in nature and also dangerous to life, on which basis the 8rst bail application of the applicant was rejected by this Court and no new good ground has been raised by the counsel for the applicant in the instant bail application, therefore, this Court is of the opinion that it is not a 8t case to enlarge the applicant on regular bail. 9. 9. Accordingly, this second bail application of applicant – Roshan Lal Sahu involved in Crime No. 84/2025 registered at Police Station – Lalbagh, District – Rajnandgaon (C.G.) for the o=ence punishable under Sections 296, 351(3) and 109(1) of the BNS, is rejected at this stage. 10. Needless to say that the trial Court concerned is at liberty to proceed and conclude the trial expeditiously. 11. O1ce is directed to send a certi8ed copy of this order to the trial Court concerned for necessary information and compliance forthwith. Sd/- (Ramesh Sinha) Chief Justice Rajshekhar