IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL APPEAL (SJ) No.4359 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-50 Year-2025 Thana- SC/ST District- Gaya ====================================================== 1. Ranjit Singh S/o Late Shambhu Singh @ Shambhu Sharan Singh R/o Village- Rupaspur, P.S.- Panchanpur, District-Gaya 2. Ankit Kumar @ Ankit Raj S/o Ranjit Singh R/o Village- Rupaspur, P.S.- Panchanpur, District-Gaya 3. Arun Kumar S/o Satyendra Chaudhary @ Satyendra Pasi R/o Village Kasma, Mahiyarpur, P.S.- Panchanpur, District- Gaya. 4. Virendra Thakur S/o Rambilash Thakur R/o Village- Kurmawan, P.S.- Konch, District- Gaya. 5. Kaushal Paswan S/o Late Ramjatan Paswan Resident of Village- Mahiyarpur, P.S.-Panchanpur, District- Gaya. ... ... Appellant/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. Babita Devi W/o Govind Chaudhary Resident of Village and Post- Amba, District- Aurangabad, At present R/o Village-Kasma, P.S.- Panchanpur, District- Gaya. ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Appellant/s : Mr. N. K. Agrawal- Sr. Advocate Mr. Sudhir Kumar Sinha For the Respondent/s : Mr. Binay Krishna- Spl.P.P. Mr. Deepak Kumar- Advocate Mr. Bishwanath Mahto- Advocate Mr. Dhandev Kumar- Advocate Mr. Dhananjay Kumar Gupta- Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 7 24-06-2026 1. Heard learned senior counsel for the appellants, the learned Special Public Prosecutor for the State and the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant. 2. The appellants have challenged the order dated 10.10.2025 passed by the learned Exclusive Special Judge, SC/ST, Gaya Ji in connection with ABP No.262 of 2025 arising Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.4359 of 2025(7) dt.24-06-2026 2/4 out of SC/ST P. S. Case No.50 of 2025, instituted for the offences under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 74, 303(2), 351(2)(3), 352 and 3(5)of the B.N.S. and Sections 3(1)(r)(s), 3(1)(w)(i), 3(1)(f), 3(2)(va) of the Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989, whereby their prayer for grant of anticipatory bail has been rejected. 3. The learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants submits that appellant no.1 has antecedent of six cases, but then was acquitted in one case and appellant no.3 has antecedent of one case and rest of the appellants have persons with clean antecedent as would manifest from the supplementary affidavit and the informant alleges 14 katha land of her father-in-law bearing Khata no. 302 and Plot No. 1670 at Village Padariya, District Gaya was given to the accused persons on rent of Rs. 1,20,000/- for agriculture with consent of her brother-in-law but then no agreement was prepared and the land was handed over based on oral consent. It is next alleged that the accused persons were not giving a rent of the land and when informant demanded the rent, the accused persons started abusing and assaulting and even tried to outrage her modesty. It is next alleged that on 01.07.2025, when informant went to the Registry office Tekari for registering the land, the accused Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.4359 of 2025(7) dt.24-06-2026 3/4 persons snatched Rs. 50,000/- and gold chain. 4. The learned Senior counsel appearing on behalf of the appellants submits that the appellants have been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that from perusal of the allegation as alleged in the FIR, It would manifest that allegation of abuse and assault is general and omnibus in nature. It is also submitted that if the allegations are perused minutely, it would manifest that the FIR has been instituted in backdrop of settling a land dispute, as such, the allegations do not inspire confidence. 5. The learned Special P.P. as well as the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant opposes the appeal. 6. Regard being had to the aforesaid submissions, the order dated 10.10.2025 is set-aside. 7. The appeal stands allowed. 8. The appellants, above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of eight weeks, are directed to be released on bail on their furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs.5,000/- (Rupees Five Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Exclusive Special Judge, SC/ST, Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.4359 of 2025(7) dt.24-06-2026 4/4 Gaya Ji in connection with ABP No.262 of 2025 arising out of SC/ST P. S. Case No.50 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. vikash/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T