IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.28190 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-189 Year-2025 Thana- GOH District- Aurangabad ====================================================== 1. Kamlesh Verma @ Kamal Verma @ Kamlesh Prasad Verma, S/O Late Narayan Mahto, 2. Anupam Kumar @ Anupam Kumar Verma @ Bablu Verma, S/O Late Shivnarayan Mahto Both are residents of village- Bhurkunda, P.S.- Goh, District- Aurangabad ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Ashok Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Umeshanand Pandit, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ARUN KUMAR JHA ORAL ORDER 2 04-05-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State. 2. In the present case, the petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Goh P.S. Case No. 189 of 2025 registered under Sections 191(2), 191(3), 189(4), 132, 221, 121(1), 115(2), 352, 109(1), 351(2), 126 of BNS, 2023 and Section 25(9) of the Arms Act. 3. As per prosecution case, the informant, who is S.H.O. of Goh Police Station, received the information on his phone about an open fighting between two groups in a village. When the informant went to pacify the matter, both sides resorted to stone pelting on police party and brandishing illegal Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.28190 of 2026(2) dt.04-05-2026 2/4 firearms. A number of persons received injuries in said fighting between the two groups. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case. The FIR has been lodged against 21 named persons including the petitioner and 15-20 unknown persons. The learned counsel further submits that the allegation of brandishing firearms is against the co-accused Amit Kumar and Dharamjeet Kumar and the general allegation of brick-biting and stone pelting is against 19 other accused persons. The learned counsel further submits that no one received any serious injury. In the case diary, only one injury report has been mentioned, i.e., the injury report of the informant and the injury of the informant was stated to be simple. The other victims also received superficial injuries. There is no allegation against the petitioners for using firearms or of pelting stones against the police. Further, during investigating, no specific overt act of the petitioners have come to notice. The learned counsel further submits that the petitioners were not present in their village but the local chaukidar, who has inimical terms with the petitioners, has falsely implicated the petitioners in the present case. The learned counsel further submits that the persons of rivalry group Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.28190 of 2026(2) dt.04-05-2026 3/4 of the petitioners belongs to SC/ST community and they are in habit of implicating the petitioners and other co-villagers for pressurizing the petitioners and others to extort money from the government. The petitioner no.1 has been made accused in one case in which he is on bail. The petitioner no. 2 is having antecedent of two cases. However, these cases have been registered by the same opposite group. 5. Learned APP vehemently opposes the submission made on behalf of the petitioners. 6. Having regard to the facts and circumstances and submissions made on behalf of the parties and considering the mostly general and omnibus nature of allegation against the petitioners and further considering the background facts and further considering the possibility of false implication, let the petitioners above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the court concerned within a period of eight weeks from today, be released on bail, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub- Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, in connection with Goh P.S. Case No. 189 of 2025, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023 Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.28190 of 2026(2) dt.04-05-2026 4/4 and other following conditions: (i) One of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioners. (ii) The petitioners will remain present on each and every date fixed by the below, if so required by the learned trial court. V.K.Pandey/- (Arun Kumar Jha, J) U T