IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.23571 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-124 Year-2025 Thana- Mau District- Gaya ====================================================== Baikunth Kumar @ Baikunth Kumar Sharma @ Vaikunth Kumar Son of Late Ramrekha Singh Resident of Village- Mahimaur, P.S.- Mau, District- Gaya ... ... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .. ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Aryan Singh For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Umesh Lal Verma ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRAVEEN KUMAR ORAL ORDER 2 22-04-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. This application for anticipatory bail arises out of Mau P.S. Case No. 124 of 2025 for the offence punishable under Sections 115(2), 126(2), 303(2), 74, 324(2), 329(3), 352 and 351(2) of the Bhartiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023. 3. As per allegation, the petitioner, who happens to be the brother-in-law of the informant, is alleged to have tried to molest her and, upon her resistance, the petitioner grabbed her hand, thrashed her on ground, started beating her and also snatched gold earrings. It is further alleged that she anyhow managed to escape and ran to another house. The petitioner has been further alleged to have thrown the household articles including the grains. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.23571 of 2026(2) dt.22-04-2026 2/2 that there is delay of six days in lodging the FIR and the present false case has been lodged in the background of dispute between the parties over property. The petitioner resides in the same house. It is further submitted that no hue and cry was raised and there is no allegation that any theft was committed, rather it has been alleged that the petitioner ransacked the area where the informant lived and there is no injury report of the informant and the ingredients of Section 74 is not made out. 5. Learned counsel for the State opposed the prayer of anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 6. Heard the parties and perused the record. Considering the facts and circumstances, let the petitioner above named, in the event of his arrest/surrender within six weeks from today in the Court below, be released 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 Judicial Magistrate First Class, Gaya, in connection with Mau P.S. Case No. 124 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita. Pawan/- (Praveen Kumar, J) U T