IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65039 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-590 Year-2023 Thana- DINARA District- Rohtas ====================================================== Umesh Kumar Singh S/O Late Dwarika Singh Resident of Vill- Bamhatar, P.S. Piro, District- Bhojpur ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Rajani Ranjan Pd. Singh, Advocate For the State : Mr. Anant Kumar 1, APP For Opposite Party No.2 : Mr. Dhaneshwar Prasad Gupta, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 09-01-2025 Heard learned counsels for the parties. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 328, 302 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. As per prosecution case, this petitioner, along with another accused person named in the F.I.R., committed murder of father of informant by administrating poison. 4. It is submitted by learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner that informant is not an eye witness to the alleged occurrence and only on suspicion, this petitioner has been made an accused in this case. He further submits that this petitioner had purchased a land from father of informant after payment of full consideration money and as such, there was no Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65039 of 2024(4) dt.09-01-2025 2/2 occasion or motive for petitioner to commit any offence. Father of informant was aged about 75 years and he may have died due to ailment. 5. On the other hand, learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant have vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner and submitted that petitioner is named in the F.I.R. and there is specific accusation that he killed father of informant by administrating poison. It is further submitted that the prosecution case is also corroborated in the post mortem report wherein cause of death has been determined as poisoning. 6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances and nature of accusation, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner is rejected. shashank/- (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) U T