IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17018 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-11 Year-2024 Thana- GAURICHAK District- Patna ====================================================== Manoj Yadav @ Manoj Kumar S/o- Mahesh Yadav Village- Sondh Bigha, P.S.-Karai Parsurai, Dist.- Nalanda ... ... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Keshab Raj For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Parmeshwar Mehta ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 08-04-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 395 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that he had stacked grains in eighty sacks for supplying it to PACS, but in the night 20-25 unknown accused persons came and looted eighty sacks of grains and loaded the same on pickup vehicle and fled after capturing the informant and his friends who were guarding the grains. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17018 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 2/3 informant, it is next submitted that the FIR is against unknown and name of the petitioner has transpired on the confessional statement of Anuj in police custody which does not have any evidentiary value. It is reiterated and submitted that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and if privilege of anticipatory bail is granted petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation to prove his innocence. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his 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) 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 Gaurichak P.S. Case No. 11 of 2024 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS. 7. It is made clear that if the investigating officer of the case files an application before the learned Trial Court, bringing to its notice that the petitioners, despite giving Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.17018 of 2026(2) dt.08-04-2026 3/3 assurance to this Court, are not cooperating in the investigation, in that event, the learned Trial Court shall be at liberty to cancel the bail bonds of the petitioner. Gaurav Sinha/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T