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2026 DAILYLAW 37434 (PAT)

Pawan Manjhi v. The State of Bihar

CR. MISC./54350/2025 · 2026-01-20

Nawneet Kumar Pandey

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.54350 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-94 Year-2025 Thana- MOHANPUR District- Gaya ====================================================== Pawan Manjhi S/O Deodhari Manjhi R/O Village- Bhagwanpur, P.S- Mohanpur, Distt.- Gaya. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Arvind Kumar Singh For the State : Mr.Shailendra Kumar, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE NAWNEET KUMAR PANDEY ORAL ORDER 3 20-01-2026 Heard the learned counsel for the parties. 2. This is an application for regular bail on behalf of the petitioner for the offences alleged under Sections 191(2), 191(3), 190, 329(4), 352, 351(3) and 103(1) of the BNS, registered in connection with Mohanpur P.S.Case No. 94/2025. 3. According to FIR, 15 named accused persons, including the petitioner, vehemently knocked the door of the deceased. When he opened the door, they started assaulting him. Specific allegation against co-accused Ajay Manjhi is that he assaulted the deceased on his head with an axe. Other accused persons assaulted him with lathi, danda etc. It is further alleged that the petitioner was brandishing pistol at the place of occurrence. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.54350 of 2025(3) dt.20-01-2026 2/2 4. The learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that he is innocent and has falsely been implicated. The learned counsel has also submitted that other similarly situated named co-accused persons have been granted bail. The petitioner is in custody since 17.03.2025 and he is the person of clean antecedents. 5. Considering the facts and circumsqances of the case, especially the fact that the petitioner is a person of clean antecedents and he has not assaulted the deceased and is in custody since 17.03.2025, let the petitioner, above-named, 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 learned ACJM-II, Sherghati, Gaya in connection Mohanpur P.S.Case No. 94/2025, subject to the conditions that the shall cooperate in the disposal of trial and make himself available as and when required by the court. HR/- (Nawneet Kumar Pandey, J) U T