IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.40305 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-45 Year-2026 Thana- GOPALPUR District- West Champaran ====================================================== Bhantu Kumar @ Omprakash Sah S/o Rambabu Sah R/o vill- Jagannathpur, PS- Gopalpur, District- West champaran ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bimlesh Kumar Pandey, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Dr. Kumar Uday Pratap, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 29-06-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State . 2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 25 (1-a), 25(9) of Arms Act. 3 . The prosecution case, in brief, is that on February 16, 2026, at approximately 8:00 pm, the informant, Station House Officer (SHO) Ankit Kumar of Gopalpur Police Station, received a viral WhatsApp video and a corresponding Facebook screenshot showing two individuals dancing with firearms at a wedding ceremony. Upon informing senior officers, Sanaha No. 552/26 was registered, and a subsequent investigation revealed that the video was recorded on the night of February 14, 2026, during the wedding of Karan Kumar’s sister in Matagarhi Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.40305 of 2026(2) dt.29-06-2026 2/3 village, where Karan Kumar and his brother-in-law, Brijkishor Yadav, were dancing with illegal local-made pistols (desi katta) before Karan posted the footage on Facebook. Following his apprehension and custody at the police station, Karan Kumar confessed to the crime, admitting that he and Brijkishor Yadav were the individuals in the video and disclosing that the weapons belonged to his friend, Bhantu Kumar (petitioner) who had brought them to the ceremony at Karan's behest. During further interrogation, Karan Kumar showcased several other videos on his mobile phone depicting another youth dancing with a desi katta, leading to the formal seizure of his mobile device as documented in the official seizure list. 4. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence as alleged. The name of the petitioner transpired during investigation in confessional statement of co-accused persons. No arms and ammunition was recovered from possession of petitioner. Petitioner neither participated in the alleged wedding function nor he was present in the facebook post. Petitioner claims clean antecedent. 5 . Learned counsel for the State opposed the bail petition . Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.40305 of 2026(2) dt.29-06-2026 3/3 6 Considering the aforesaid facts, clean antecedent of the petitioner and other circumstances of the case , in the event of arrest or surrender within eight weeks from today, let the petitioner, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned JM 1st Class, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Gopalpur P.S. Case No. 45 of 2026, subject to the conditions laid down under section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita , 2023 . Koushik/Sanjay- (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) U T