IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.82065 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-426 Year-2025 Thana- LAKHISARAI District- Lakhisarai ====================================================== Shivam Singh @ Shalu Samrat S/o Sanjeeb Singh @ Sanjiv Kumar Singh R/o vill - Ratanpur, P.S.- Bariyarpur, Distt.- Munger ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Rajive Ranjan Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Mithlesh Kumar Khare, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SOURENDRA PANDEY ORAL ORDER 2 05-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Lakhisarai P.S. Case No. 426 of 2025 dated 01.09.2025 registered for the offences under Sections 308(4), 352 and 351(2) of the B.N.S. 3. As per the FIR the informant has alleged that the petitioner had, through a facebook messenger, demanded extortion money from the informant. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the FIR has been lodged on misconceived notion as the ID of the petitioner was misused by some miscreants, who had demanded the said amount and for which the brother of the petitioner had also lodged a complaint in the cyber crime on 10.04.2025. It has Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.82065 of 2025(2) dt.05-01-2026 2/3 been submitted that no such demand has been made by the petitioner and, in fact, he has clean antecedent and no such allegation of cyber crime has been lodged against the petitioner earlier. It has also been submitted that the petitioner has been made a scapegoat and in fact, he himself is a victim of cyber crime. 5. The petitioner is in custody since 24.09.2025. 6. Learned APP has vehemently opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner. 7. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances and taking into account the fact that the petitioner carries clean antecedent, he is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail bonds in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Lakhisarai in connection with Lakhisarai P.S. Case No. 426 of 2025 subject to the following terms and conditions: (i) One of the bailors will be a close relative of the petitioner; (ii) the petitioner will remain present on each and every date fixed, if so required, by the learned Trial Court; (iii) in case of absence on two consecutive dates or in Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.82065 of 2025(2) dt.05-01-2026 3/3 violation of the terms of the bail, the bail bonds of the petitioner will liable to be cancelled by the Court concerned; (iv) the Court below shall verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and in case at any stage, it is found that the petitioner has concealed his criminal antecedent, the court below shall take step for cancellation of bail bonds of the petitioner. However, the acceptance of bail bonds in terms of the above mentioned order shall not be delayed for purpose of the same on in the name of verification. 8. It is made clear that the observations, if any, made in this order, shall be of no bearing during the trial. krishna/- (Sourendra Pandey, J) U T