IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.46916 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-671 Year-2025 Thana- BIHAR District- Nalanda ====================================================== Sandeep Kumar S/O Madan Kumar R/O Village- Jahangirpur, P.S- Asthawan, District- Nalanda. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bipin Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Madan Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GIRIJISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 3 18-08-2026 Heard learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner and learned APP appearing on behalf of the State. 2. The petitioner seeks regular bail in connection with Bihar Sharif Police Station Case No. 671 of 2025 registered for offences punishable under Sections 103(1) and 238/61(2) of the B.N.S. 3. As per allegation in the FIR, on 12.12.2025 at about 06:00 A.M., son-in-law of the informant called on her mobile phone and asked her whether she had spoken to his son, Mantu Kumar @ Golu, to which she replied that she had spoken to him at 09:00 P.M. the previous night. At 07:00 A.M. on the next day, when she called him on mobile phone, a police personnel answered, confirmed the phone belong to her son and informed her that dead body of her son has been recovered and taken to the Bihar Sharif Sadar Hospital asking her to come there. Then she went to the Bihar Sharif Police station and submitted that his son was brutally assaulted and murdered by the accused due to long standing conflict of his son with his friend. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.46916 of 2026(3) dt.18-08-2026 2/3 4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent, committed no offence, and has been falsely implicated in the instant case due to ulterior motive. He next submits that the petitioner is not an FIR named accused, however, his name surfaced in this case during investigation. He further submits that there is no independent eye witness of the said incidence. He further submits that during course of investigation mobile no. of the petitioner was seized but no conversation of the petitioner with any accused person has surfaced during investigation. He further submits that except the confessional statement of the petitioner given to the police, there is no other evidence either direct or circumstantial against the petitioner that the petitioner was involved in the said crime. He further submits that the petitioner has one criminal antecedent, in which he is on bail. He further submits that the petitioner is in custody since 18.01.2026. Hence, the petitioner may be granted the regular bail. 5. Learned APP appearing on behalf of the State vehemently opposes the prayer for bail of the petitioner and submits that petitioner was also involved in the cyber fraud along with the deceased. It has been collected during course of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.46916 of 2026(3) dt.18-08-2026 3/3 investigation that some money has also been transferred by the brother-in-law of the deceased in the account of one of the co- accused namely, Srikant Kumar at the behest of the petitioner, which shows that the petitioner was also one of the associates of the deceased, this fact has been submitted by the petitioner in his confessional statement, therefore, the petitioner does not deserve bail. 6. Considering the fact that the name of the petitioner surfaced in this case during investigation on the basis of confessional statement of the co-accused namely, Ranjit Kumar supported by the confession of the petitioner suggesting their involvement in the commission of abduction of the son of the informant leading to his death, this Court is not inclined to grant the bail to the petitioner at the present. 7. Therefore, the prayer for grant of bail is, hereby, rejected. 8. However, the petitioner may reapproach this Court after framing of charges against him in this case. dhaneshwar/- (Girijish Kumar, J) U T