IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL APPEAL (SJ) No.2489 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-90 Year-2025 Thana- MUFFASIL District- Aurangabad ====================================================== 1. Sintu Kumar @ Ranjit Kumar S/o Dina Singh R/o Village- Rajoi, PS- Muffasil, District- Aurangabad 2. Chhote Kumar @ Manjeet Singh S/o Dina Singh R/o Village- Rajoi, PS- Muffasil, District- Aurangabad 3. Umesh Singh @ Umesh Kumar S/o Vinod Singh R/o Village- Rajoi, PS- Muffasil, District- Aurangabad 4. Brij Nandan Singh @ Brij Nandan Chandravanshi S/o Sukhadi Singh R/o Village- Rajoi, PS- Muffasil, District- Aurangabad 5. Saurabh Chandravanshi @ Saurabh Kumar S/o Brij Nandan Singh @ Brij Nandan Chandravanshi R/o Village- Rajoi, PS- Muffasil, District- Aurangabad ... ... Appellant/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. Jirmaniya Kuwar W/o Late Jayant Paswan R/o Village- Rajoi, PS- Muffasil, District- Aurangabad ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Appellant/s : Mr. Rakesh Singh, Advocate For the State : Ms. Usha Kumari 1, SPP For the Informant : Mr. Rohit Ray, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RUDRA PRAKASH MISHRA ORAL ORDER 4 09-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the appellants and learned Special Public Prosecutor for the State as also learned counsel for the informant. Perused the case diary. 2. The instant appeal has been filed by the appellants against the order dated 28.05.2025 passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge-1st-cum-Special Judge, Aurangabad whereby the prayer for anticipatory bail of the appellants in connection Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.2489 of 2025(4) dt.09-02-2026 2/3 with Aurangabad Muffasil PS Case No. 90 of 2025 instituted under Sections 109(1), 126(2), 115(2), 352, 351(2), 3(5) & 303(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and Sections 3(i) (r)(s) & 3(2)(va) of SC/ST Act was rejected. 3. Prosecution case, in short, is that all the accused persons, including the appellants entered the house of the informant and assaulted the informant and her family members due to which they sustained injuries. 4. Learned counsel for the appellants submits that the appellants are innocent and have falsely been implicated in the present case. There is no specific allegation against the appellants, rather the same is general and omnibus in nature. There is case and counter case between the parties. Learned counsel for the appellants further submits that the appellants have not taken the caste name of the informant in public view. Hence, no offence under the provisions of SC/ST Act is made out against them. The appellants have no intention to disgrace the image of the informant in public view. The appellants have no criminal antecedent each. Similar co-accused has been granted regular bail by this Court vide order dated 07.08.2025 passed in Cr. Appeal (S.J.) No. 1729 of 2025. 5. Learned Special P.P. for the State and the informant Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.2489 of 2025(4) dt.09-02-2026 3/3 have vehemently opposed the prayer for grant of bail to the appellants. 6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, there being no specific allegation against the appellants and the period of custody undergone by the appellants, this Court is inclined to allow this appeal. Accordingly, the appeal is allowed and order dated 28.05.2025 passed by learned Additional Sessions Judge-1st-cum-Special Judge, Aurangabad is hereby set aside. 7. Let the appellants, above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.15,000/- (Rupees Fifteen Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Aurangabad Muffasil PS Case No. 90 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS, 2023. Raj Kishore/- (Rudra Prakash Mishra, J) U T