IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.2883 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-221 Year-2025 Thana- BELHAR District- Banka ====================================================== 1. Rajendra Pandit S/o- Bhado Pandit Village- Bhagwanpur PO-Sautadih PS- Belhar Dist-Banka 2. Surati Devi @ Sarita Devi W/o- Rajendra Pandit Village- Bhagwanpur PO- Sautadih PS- Belhar Dist-Banka 3. Ajit Pandit @ Ajit Kumar Pandit S/o- Bhado Pandit Village- Bhagwanpur PO-Sautadih PS- Belhar Dist-Banka 4. Priyanka Devi w/o- Ajit Pandit Village- Bhagwanpur PO-Sautadih PS- Belhar Dist-Banka ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Mukul Jee, Advocate For the State : Dr. Ajeet Kumar, APP For the Informant : Mr. Shubhesh Pandey, Advocate Mr. Vinit Kumar, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER 4 04-05-2026 Learned counsel for the petitioners seeks permission to withdraw the bail application with respect to petitioner no. 3, namely, Ajit Pandit @ Ajit Kumar Pandit. 2. Permission is accorded. 3. Accordingly, the bail application with respect to petitioner no. 3 is dismissed as withdrawn. 4. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner nos. 1, 2 & 4, learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel for the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2883 of 2026(4) dt.04-05-2026 2/4 informant. 5. The petitioner nos. 1, 2 & 4 apprehend their arrest in a case registered under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 109, 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 6. As per prosecution case, on 25.07.2025 at about 07:00 A.M., when informant was working in his field, in the meantime, the accused persons including the petitioners, came there and it is alleged that petitioner nos. 1, 2 & 3 and other co- accused persons assaulted the informant with blackjack, khanti, tengari and bhujai. It is further alleged that petitioner no. 3 assaulted on the head of the informant with iron rod. When family members of the informant came to rescue then petitioner no. 1 and other co-accused persons assaulted the son of the informant due to which he sustained injury. Co-accused Bhado Pandit assaulted the informant’s wife and petitioner no. 2 and others snatched her gold earring. 7. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner nos. 1, 2 & 4 submits that petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in the present case. Further submissions is that both the parties are gotiyas and neighbours and due to dispute between the parties with respect to irrigation of field, some altercation took place between them in which both sides Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2883 of 2026(4) dt.04-05-2026 3/4 sustained injuries. There is case and counter case for the same occurrence. He next submits that specific allegation of assaulting the informant on his head is against the co-accused Ajit Pandit @ Ajit Kumar Pandit (petitioner no. 3). Similarly situated co- accused persons have already been granted anticipatory bail by a Co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 24.02.2026 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 2964 of 2026. Petitioner nos. 1 & 2 have one criminal antecedent and petitioner no. 4 has no criminal antecedent. They undertake to cooperate in the investigation and trial. 8. Learned A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State and learned counsel for the informant opposed the bail application. 9. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, submissions of learned counsel for the parties and nature of allegation against the petitioner nos. 1, 2 & 4, let petitioner nos. 1, 2 & 4, namely, Rajendra Pandit, Surati Devi @ Sarita Devi and Priyanka Devi, be released on bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court concerned within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Banka in connection with Belhar P.S. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2883 of 2026(4) dt.04-05-2026 4/4 Case No. 221 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. utkarsh/- (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J) U T