Ravi Ranjan @ Ravi Ranjan paswanversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.14089 of 2026
                     Arising Out of PS. Case No.-475 Year-2025 Thana- MADHUBANI TOWN District-
                                                       Madhubani
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                 Ravi Ranjan @ Ravi Ranjan paswan Son of Sanjay paswan Resident of
                 village- Bhatshimar P.S- Rajnagar District -Madhubani

                                                                               ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                      Versus
                 The State of Bihar bihar

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr.Subhash Kumar Jha, Adv.
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Mr.Ram Bilash Roy Raman, APP
                 Fore the informant       :      Mr. N. K. Agrawal, Sr. Adv.
                                                 Mr. Saroj Kumar Choudhary, Adv.
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ASHOK KUMAR PANDEY
                                       ORAL ORDER

3   15-04-2026                  Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP

                   for the State.

                                2. The petitioner seeks bail in Madhubani Town P.S. Case

                   No. 475 of 2025 registered for the offence punishable under

                   Sections-103(1), 61(2) of B.N.S. 2023 and 27 of the Arms Act.

                                3. The prosecution case, in short, is that the husband of the

                   informant had gone to the State Information Commission, Patna in

                   connection with a case and in course of returning home from

                   Madhubani station, he was killed. It has further been alleged that

                   Pravin Kumar and Satish Kumar had threatened him of dire

                   consequences. It has also been alleged that the deceased used to raise

                   voice against corruption and the named accused persons had

                   threatened him of dire consequences and that is why, , he was killed.

                                4. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the
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          petitioner is not named in the FIR. In course of investigation, the

          name of the petitioner has surfaced in this case in the confessional

          statement of co-accused Nazare Alam. In his confessional statement,

          Nazare Alam has stated that the petitioner was working as a liner and

          he was engaged as liner from the station as he had an eye on the bike

          of the deceased from the parking area where the deceased had parked

          his bike. As soon as the deceased moved with his bike, the petitioner

          informed the main accused Nazare Alam. It has further been

          submitted that Chandan was driving the bike and Nazare Alam was

          the pillion rider who had fired at the deceased. Learned counsel for

          the petitioner has submitted that save and except the confessional

          statement of co-accused Nazare Alam, there is nothing against the

          petitioner and the role which has been attributed to the petitioner by

          the Nazare Alam as said in his confessional statement was that he

          was working as a liner. In the first part of the FIR, it is mentioned

          that one Abhilash Jha has contacted him for killing at Rs. 1,00,000/-

          (one lakh) cash and Rs. 15,000/- per month was also said to be given

          for five years and Rs. 20,000/- was given for the said killing as

          advance.

                       5. Per contra, learned counsel for the informant and the

          learned APP have vehemently opposed the prayer for bail by

          submitting that the peit6ioner is a person who identified the deceased

          upon which, the main assailant Nazre Alam shot at the deceased. It

          has also been submitted that from perusal of the case diary, it will
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                      transpire that Chandan Kumar and Nazare Alam were apprehended

                      together and from perusal of the CDR of the mobile of the petitioner,

                      it is clear that he had called 11 times to Nazare Alam on the daete of

                      occurrence. Learned counsel for the informant has submitted that the

                      murder of the deceased was committing by hatching a conspiracy and

                      the petitioner is the liner who has identified the deceased.

                                   6. Having heard the parties and taking into submissions

                      advanced by them, it is clear that named of the petitioner surfaced in

                      confessional statement of the co-accused and even on perusal of the

                      confessional statement, the petitioner has played the role of a liner

                      only and he is in custody since 25-10-2025 and accordingly, let the

                      petitioner named above, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate,

                      Madhubani in connection with Madhubani Town P.S. Case No. 475

                      of 2025.



                                            (Ashok Kumar Pandey, J)
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