IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.52807 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-48 Year-2025 Thana- SHYAMPUR BHATHAN District- Sheohar ====================================================== Ravi Kumar @ Ravi Kumar Singh S/o Ashnarayan Singh (Wrongly described as Ash Ranjan Singh), R/o Village- Pirari, P.S.- Chiraiya, District- East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Dinesh Jha, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Yogendra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 17-08-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Shyampur Bhataha P.S. Case No. 48 of 2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 308(4) and 308(5) of the BNS, 2023. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that on 14.04.2025 at about 09:30 PM, he received call from 14 different mobile numbers and the unknown caller abused and threatened the informant that if he did not pay extortion of Rs. 10 Lakhs he would be killed. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that FIR Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.52807 of 2026(2) dt.17-08-2026 2/3 is against known and the name of the petitioner transpired in the confessional statement of Dhirendra in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is also submitted that from perusal of the order impugned, it would manifest that Dhirendra disclosed that he acted in association with the petitioner and used an application in the petitioner’s mobile to create calls appearing to be made from various numbers to the mobile number of the informant. 5. The learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that from perusal of the statement of Dhirendra in police custody, it would manifest that he accepts that the mobile of the petitioner was used in the occurrence as the application was installed, but then it is submitted that screen of the mobile of the petitioner was damaged on 13.04.2025, hence he had given his mobile to Sri Kumar Singh, who is a friend of the petitioner, for getting it repaired as he was going to Motihari and the mobile was returned to the petitioner by Sri Kumar on 16.04.2025, after getting the same repaired, as such it is submitted that it might be a possibility that during the course of repairing of the mobile, the application was installed. It is also submitted that petitioner runs a grocery shop. 6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.52807 of 2026(2) dt.17-08-2026 3/3 anticipatory bail application of the petitioner and submits that no doubt confessional statement in police custody does not any evidentiary value, but then the statement made by the accused in custody requires to be corroborated for which interrogation of the petitioner is required. 7. After hearing the learned counsel for the parties, the Court is not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 8. Accordingly, the instant anticipatory bail application stands rejected. Rishabh/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T