IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.40040 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-316 Year-2024 Thana- LALIT NARAYAN UNIVERSITY District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Manoranjan Kumar @ Manoranjan Mishra @ Munna, aged about 51 years, male, S/o- Purnanand Mishra R/o- Gosainighar Rambag Ps- LNMU Dist- Darbhanga ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Ajay Kumar Thakur, Advocate Ms. Vaishnavi Singh, Advocate Mr. Ritwik Thakur, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Aditya Narayan Singh.1, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAMESH CHAND MALVIYA ORAL ORDER 3 20-08-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. Petitioner is in custody in a case registered for the offence under Sections 103(2) of the BNS. 3. As per the prosecution case, it is alleged that on 15.11.2024 the informant’s brother(deceased) was indulged in marpeet after which he got badly injured. Then local police admitted him in D.M.C.H for treatment where his brother succumbed to injuries and died in course of the treatment and thus informant prayed to take legal action against unknown persons who were member of mob. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.40040 of 2025(3) dt.20-08-2025 2/3 petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. He further submits that on the alleged date of occurrence, the informant’s brother entered into the Religious Trust Office with deadly weapons like lathi, chuura, country made pistol and cartridges and on being objected, he got indulged in maarpet with other persons. He next submits that agter going through a CCTV footage, the Investigating Officer had found the involvement of the petitioner that he took the firearm from the informant’s brother(deceased). He further submits that the petitioner did not take the firearm to kill the informant’s brother infact, he was just snatching the firearm from the informant's brother. He next submits that no any person has supported the alleged occurrence and there is no specific allegation against the petitioner. He next submits that petitioner is in custody since 18.04.2025 and has got no criminal antecedent as stated in para- 3 of the bail petition. 5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for bail of the petitioner. 6. On perusal of First Information Report, case diary, post-mortem report of the deceased and impugned order dated 24.05.2025, it appears that there is no specific allegation against the petitioner and there is no criminal antecedent against the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.40040 of 2025(3) dt.20-08-2025 3/3 petitioner. So, considering all aspects of the case and submission made by learned counsel for the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on bail, on his furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/-(Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub Divisional Magistrate, Darbhanga in connection with University P.S. Case No.316 of 2024. Harshita/- (Ramesh Chand Malviya, J) U T