IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL APPEAL (SJ) No.176 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-77 Year-2024 Thana- SC/ST District- Purnia ====================================================== Hira Lal Ray @ Hira Lal Yadav @ Hira Nand Ray S/o- Sri Nityanand Ray Resident of Jankinagar Laljee Mandal P.S-Jankinagar, Dist- Purnea ... ... Appellant/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar Bihar 2. Sona Bharti S/o- Sona Bharti Village- Jankinagar Ps- Jankinar Dist- Purnea ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Appellant/s : Mr.Amit Kumar Anand, Adv. For the Respondent/s : Mr. Sathish Kumar Singh, Adv. Mr. Dinesh Maharaj, Adv. For the State : Ms.Usha Kumari 1, Spl.PP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 17-04-2025 Heard learned counsel for the appellant and learned counsel for the informant as well as learned Special Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. This is an appeal under Section 14A(2) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 (hereinafter in short referred to as the SC/ST Act) against the refusal of prayer of bail vide order dated 17.12.2024 passed by the learned Special Judge, SC/ST Act, Purnea in connection with SC/ST P.S. Case No. 77/2024 dated 10.09.2024 registered for the offence/s punishable u/ss 341, 323, 324, 325, 307, 379, 504 and 506 read with Section 34 of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 3(1)(r)(s) and 3(2)(va) of the Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.176 of 2025(4) dt.17-04-2025 2/3 SC/ST Act. 3. As per the prosecution case, on 28.05.2024, at about 12 o'clock in the night, the informant went to Meena Devi's house to give her medicine. In the meantime, the appellant and the co-accused person, namely, Tilo Ray and 3-4 other boys came together and started abusing him by calling caste name and assaulted him with fists, slaps, lathi-danda and iron rod. Earlier, about 5-7 days ago, the land adjacent to the informant's house was being measured in the wrong manner. Due to this, the said person had threatened to kill him by abusing him by calling caste name. Further, the informant has alleged that the accused persons have also snatched Rs. 16,000/- from his pocket. 4. Learned counsel for the appellant has submitted that the appellant has falsely been implicated in this case due to ulterior motive. As per FIR, no member of public was present at the relevant point of time of the incident. Learned counsel has further submitted that no particular caste name has been called by the appellant hence no case is made out under SC/ST Act. Learned counsel has submitted that the injury is simple in nature. The co-accused person has already been granted regular bail by this court vide order dated 27.02.2025 passed in Cr. Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.176 of 2025(4) dt.17-04-2025 3/3 Appeal (SJ) No. 100/2025. The appellant has no criminal antecedent as stated at para 3 of the bail petition. The appellant is in custody since 16.12.2024. 5. Learned counsel learned Spl. P.P. for the State as well as learned counsel for the informant have vehemently opposed the prayer of bail. 6. In view of the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as finding substance in the contention of the learned counsel for the appellant, the impugned order dated 17.12.2024 passed by the learned Special Judge, SC/ST Act, Purnea in connection with SC/ST P.S. Case No. 77/2024 is set aside against the appellant. The criminal appeal is allowed. 7. Accordingly, the above named appellant, 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 the learned Special Judge, SC/ST Act, Purnea in connection with SC/ST P.S. Case No. 77/2024. Gautam/- (Chandra Prakash Singh, J) U T