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2026 DAILYLAW 32887 (PAT)

Lakshman Singh @ Lakhan Singh v. The State of Bihar

CR. MISC./5991/2026 · 2026-02-04

S B P Singh

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.5991 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-80 Year-2025 Thana- GHOGHARDIHA District- Madhubani ====================================================== 1. Lakshman Singh @ Lakhan Singh Son of Ramu Singh Resident of Village- Gulariya Tol, P.S.- Ghoghardiha, District- Madhubani 2. Bisheshwar Singh @ Bisheshwar Kumar Singh Son of Radhe Shyam Singh Resident of Village- Gulariya Tol, P.S.- Ghoghardiha, District- Madhubani ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Baleshwar Kamat For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Binod Kumar ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S. B. PD. SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 04-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Ghoghardiha P.S. Case No. 80 of 2025 for the offence under Sections 126(2), 118(1), 115(2), 110, 329(4), 76, 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the BNS. 3. As per the prosecution story, the informant has alleged that on 07.05.2025 at about 6:00 PM, when he was filling soil with a tractor near his doorstep, Lakshman Singh (petitioner no. 1), Shivji Singh, Shatrudhan Singh, Shani Kumar Singh, Bisheshwar Singh (petitioner no. 2), Ram Bharos Singh, Sohag Devi, Kalwa Devi, unlawfully and in a pre-planned Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.5991 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 2/3 manner attacked on him, armed with deadly weapons such as country-made axe (tengri), and iron rod. Co-accused Shivji Singh assaulted with tengari on the forehead of the informant, as a result of which he sustained deep cut injury on his head and fell on the ground. Even thereafter, Laxman Singh assaulted him again on the forehead with an axe, and Shani Kumar Singh struck his right hand with an iron rod, resulting in fracture. When his family members came to rescue, whereupon Laxman Singh, Shivji Singh, Sohag Devi, and Kalwa Devi forcibly entered in his house, dragged his wife by her hair, assaulted her brutally, and outraged her modesty. During the assault, Sohag Devi and Kalwa Devi removed gold earrings worth about Rs. 60,000/- from his wife’s ears. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are quite innocent and have committed no offence as alleged by the informant. No such occurrence in the manner as alleged in the prosecution story has ever been taken place. The entire allegation levelled against the petitioners is out and out false, forged, frivolous, fabricated and concocted one which is completely denied. This case is counterblast of Ghoghardiha P.S. Case No. 79 of 2025 which has been filed by the son of co- accused Kapleshwar Singh against the informant of the present Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.5991 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 3/3 case. It is also submitted that now the matter has been compromised between both the parties and the compromise petition is annexed in the bail application as Annexure-P/3. A statement has been made in para 3 of the bail application that petitioner has clean antecedent. 5. Learned APP opposes the prayer for bail. 6. Keeping in view the aforesaid facts, this Court is inclined to extend them the privilege of anticipatory bail. 7. Let the petitioners be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from the date of receipt of this order, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate Ist Class, Jhanjharpur, Madhubani, in connection with Ghoghardiha P.S. Case No. 80 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 of B.N.S.S., as also with the condition that one of the bailors should be close relative of the petitioner. Ankit Kumar/- (S. B. Pd. Singh, J) U T