IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.22697 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1115 Year-2025 Thana- GAYA MUFASIL District- Gaya ====================================================== 1. Kundan Kumar Son of Umes Yadav Resident of village -Sohaipur P S -Buniyadganj District -Gaya 2. Sujit Kumar Son of Surendra yadav Resident of village -Sohaipur P S -Buniyadganj District -Gaya 3. Kauleshwar Prasad @ Buchi Yadav son of Kishori Yadav Resident of village -Sohaipur P S -Buniyadganj District -Gaya 4. Sikandar Yadav Son of Late Sohar yadav Resident of village -Sohaipur P S -Buniyadganj District -Gaya 5. Abhishek yadav @ Abhishek Kumar son of Shailendra Yadav Resident of village -Sohaipur P S -Buniyadganj District -Gaya 6. Niranjan Kumar yadav @ Niranjan yadav @ Niranjan Kumar Son of Late Sohar yadav Resident of village -Sohaipur P S -Buniyadganj District -Gaya 7. Mausam Kumar son of Kauleshar Prasad @ Buchi Yadav Resident of village -Sohaipur P S -Buniyadganj District -Gaya ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Vinod Kumar For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Rajendra Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S. B. PD. SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 06-05-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 1115 of 2025 for the offence under Sections 191(2), 190, 126(2), 115(2), 132, 109, 323 and 292 of the BNS. 3. As per the prosecution story, the informant has Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22697 of 2026(3) dt.06-05-2026 2/4 alleged that on receiving information through a WhatsApp message regarding communal tension and a riot-like situation in village Sohaipur under Mufassil Police Station, District Gaya, in connection with the Bihar Legislative Assembly Elections, 2025, the informant, Subodh Kumar, Election Registration Officer-cum-Land Reforms Deputy Collector, Manpur, reached the village along with police officials and Magistrates. Upon inquiry, it was revealed that a dispute had initially arisen between children of the Yadav and Sharma (carpenter) communities over bursting firecrackers on 22.10.2025, which subsequently escalated into violent clashes between both groups. It is alleged that members of both communities formed unlawful assemblies, assaulted each other, indulged in indiscriminate brick-batting and stone-pelting, and created a serious law-and-order situation, causing injuries to several persons and obstructing government officials in discharge of their official duties during the election period. Several named accused persons from both sides, along with 20–25 unknown persons, were alleged to be involved in the occurrence. The injured persons were taken into custody after medical treatment, and during interrogation they disclosed the names of other participants involved in the incident. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22697 of 2026(3) dt.06-05-2026 3/4 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are innocent and have committed no offence. They have been falsely implicated in the present case due to political and election rivalry. It is further submitted that the allegations of assault and abuse levelled against the petitioners are general, vague, and omnibus in nature, and no injury report of the informant’s side has been annexed with the F.I.R. It is also contended that, owing to local political animosity and with an intention to exert pressure for compromise and to shield themselves in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 1114 of 2025, the informant’s side informed the police and deliberately suggested the names of the petitioners for false implication. 5. Learned APP opposes the prayer for bail. 6. Keeping in view the aforesaid facts, this Court is inclined to extend them the privilege of anticipatory bail. 7. Let the petitioners be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of this order, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya, in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 1115 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.22697 of 2026(3) dt.06-05-2026 4/4 B.N.S.S., as also with the condition that one of the bailors should be close relative of the petitioners. Ankit Kumar/- (S. B. Pd. Singh, J) U T