IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.86218 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-276 Year-2025 Thana- BAIKUNTHPUR District- Gopalganj ====================================================== 1. Pradeep Manjhi S/o Kapildev Manjhi Resident of Vill. - Dighwa, P.S. - Baikunthpur, District - Gopalganj. 2. Manjeet Manjhi S/o Jagdish Manjhi Resident of Vill. - Dighwa, P.S. - Baikunthpur, District - Gopalganj. 3. Amrit Manjhi S/o Jagdish Manjhi Resident of Vill. - Dighwa, P.S. - Baikunthpur, District - Gopalganj. 4. Shivdutt Manjhi S/o Jagdish Manjhi Resident of Vill. - Dighwa, P.S. - Baikunthpur, District - Gopalganj. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Anand Vardhan For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Sanjay Kumar Pandey ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 20-01-2026 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 109, 329(3), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that accused persons on 24-7-2025 at 7 pm came to her house and started abusing, on protest Jagdish assaulted her by Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.86218 of 2025(2) dt.20-01-2026 2/3 farsa causing injury on head, thereafter Pradip and Amrit assaulted her by lathi all over her body and Manjit assaulted her aunt by lathi causing injury on head. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners have been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that from perusal of the allegations as alleged in the FIR, it would manifest that no specific allegation is alleged against the petitioners except petitioner no. 2, who is alleged to have assaulted the aunt of the informant by lathi causing injury on head, but then the injury has been opined to be simple in nature. It is further submitted that specific allegation of assaulting the informant by farsa is against Jagdish, but Jagdish is not the petitioner and as far as allegation against Pradip and Amrit is alleged, the same is not specific rather it is alleged that they assaulted the informant by lathi all over the body, but then the said allegation is an exaggerated allegation. It is also submitted that from side of the petitioner, Baikunthpur PS Case No. 277 of 2025 has been instituted against the informant and her side alleging that informant and her side had asked the petitioners to sow the seeds in the field but on account of rain, the seeds could not be sowed, as such the side of the informant came and assaulted Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.86218 of 2025(2) dt.20-01-2026 3/3 them. It is submitted that petitioners are not criminals. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Baikunthpur P.S. Case No. 276 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS. Sumit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T