IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.2759 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-34 Year-2025 Thana- NAANPUR District- Sitamarhi ====================================================== Pintu Kumar @ Pintu Kumar Pandit @ Surya S/O Girindra Pandit Resident Of Village- Kharka, P.S.- Bokhara (Old P.S. Nanpur), District- Sitamarhi ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Dwij Raj, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Nand Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 2 04-02-2026 Heard the learned Advocate for the petitioner and the learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Nanpur P.S. Case No. 34 of 2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341(4), 331(4), 305 and 3(5) of the B.N.S., 2023. 3. In the night of 18.01.2025, some unknown thieves committed theft of various articles and ornaments as well as cash from the house of Hari Kishun Das, Shyam Mandal and Nikhil Kumar. This led to lodging of the FIR against unknown thieves. 4. Learned Advocate for the petitioner submitted that the FIR has instituted against unknown thieves. However, later on, the police apprehended one Ranjit Kumar Jha and the name Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2759 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 2/3 of the petitioner has transpired in his confessional statement. Save and except the confessional statement, there is no material suggesting the complicity of the petitioner in crime. Even during the course of investigation, no stolen articles have been recovered from the whereabout of the petitioner. Moreover, the petitioner had inimical term with Ranjit Kumar Jha and this was one of the reason for implicating the name of the petitioner. The petitioner bears fair antecedent and undertakes the he will fully co-operate in the proceeding of the Court. 5. On the other hand, learned Advocate for the State opposed the pre-arrest bail application and submits that the name of the petitioner has been disclosed by apprehended person, who was found involve in theft of huge articles from the house of several persons. 6. Having considered the submissions advanced by learned Advocate for the respective parties and taking note of the materials available on record, especially the fact that no recovery has been made from the whereabout of the petitioner, besides the fair antecedent of the petitioner as also the fact that save and except the confessional statement, there is no other material, let the petitioner above named be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the court below within Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2759 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 3/3 a period of four weeks from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned SDJM, Pupri at Sitamarhi in connection with Nanpur P.S. Case No. 34 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 with the further condition that one of the bailors shall be the own/close family members of the petitioner. shivank/- (Harish Kumar, J) U T