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2025 DAILYLAW 56667 (PAT)

Pradhan Kumar v. The State of Bihar

CR. MISC./44096/2025 · 2025-07-28

Chandra Prakash Singh

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.44096 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-31 Year-2025 Thana- MANSURCHAK District- Begusarai ====================================================== Pradhan Kumar S/O Late Shiv Shankar Mahto R/O Vill.- Khokso, Ward no. 5, P.s.- Dalsinghsarai, Dist.- Samastipur. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Bipin Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Sharda Kumari ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 28-07-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in connection with Mansurchak P.S. Case No. 31 of 2025 dated 17.04.2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 309(4) and 311 of B.N.S. 3. As per the prosecution case, the informant alleges that a person rented his rickshaw for Shatha. Thereafter, when they reached at Govindpur Brahma Asthan, two miscreants came there on motorcycle and asked him to come down from rickshaw. On denial by the informant, they assaulted and on the gunpoint took him to orchard and snatched his mobile and e- rickshaw. On search, one country-made pistol and three live Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.44096 of 2025(2) dt.28-07-2025 2/3 cartridges were recovered from the co-accused Krishna Kumar @ Kishan Kumar. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. The petitioner is not named in the FIR. The name of the petitioner has sprung up in the confessional statement of the co-accused, Kundan Kumar. It is further submitted that as per para-14 of the case diary, the stolen e-rickshaw along with five other e-rickshaws was also recovered from the house of the co- accused Dinesh Chaudhary, which is mentioned in the impugned order dated 30.05.2025. Nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. The petitioner has no concern with the alleged occurrence. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is in custody since 18.04.2025. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has opposed the bail petition of the petitioner. 6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the period of custody, the petitioner above- named, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.44096 of 2025(2) dt.28-07-2025 3/3 concerned, Begusarai in connection with Mansurchak P.S. Case No. 31 of 2025. 7. The application stands allowed. shivam/- (Chandra Prakash Singh, J) U T