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2026 DAILYLAW 31428 (PAT)

Anuj Kumar v. The State of Bihar

CR. MISC./4666/2026 · 2026-02-02

Satyavrat Verma

Public Interest Litigationbody2026

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.4666 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-330 Year-2025 Thana- NARDIGANJ District- Nawada ====================================================== 1. Anuj Kumar S/o Ambika Prasad @ Amerik Mahto R/o Village - Buchchi, P.S - Nardiganj, District - Nawada 2. Subhash Mahto @ Subhash Kumar S/o Rajo Mahto @ Rajendra Mahto R/o Village - Buchchi, P.S - Nardiganj, District - Nawada 3. Dipu Kumar @ Deepu Kumar S/o Kapil Mahto @ Kapildeo Prasad R/o Village - Buchchi, P.S - Nardiganj, District - Nawada 4. Abhimanyu Kumar @ Gore Kumar @ Golerlal Kumar S/o Suresh Mahto @ Suresh Prasad R/o Village - Buchchi, P.S - Nardiganj, District - Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Birendra Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Satyendra Prasad, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 02-02-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 127(2), 118(1), 115(2), 110, 191(1), 192 and 190 of the BNS. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that he was going to attend a programme when he was intercepted by 30-40 accused persons and Bittu Kumar with khanti and Ranjit Kumar with gandasa assaulted him on his head and thereafter 22 named accused persons including the petitioners assaulted him by lathi, danda and butt of rifle. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.4666 of 2026(2) dt.02-02-2026 2/2 petitioners have been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is further submitted that Mithun Kumar along with four others had approached this Court seeking anticipatory bail by filing Cr. Misc. No. 4571 of 2026 and the same came to be allowed by an order dated 02.02.2026. It is next submitted that case of the petitioners is on a similar footing, thus, based on parity, the petitioners seek anticipatory bail. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners and taking into consideration the order dated 02.02.2026 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 4571 of 2026, let the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Nardiganj P.S. Case No. 330 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C./482(2) of the BNSS. Kundan/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T