Raushan KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.66000 of 2025
                       Arising Out of PS. Case No.-22 Year-2024 Thana- DIDARGANJ District- Patna
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                 Raushan Kumar S/o Shyam Narayan Singh @ Chhotan Singh R/o Village-
                 Punadih, P.S.- Didarganj, District- Patna
                                                                     ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                      Versus
                 The State of Bihar
                                                              ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :       Mr. Anupam Bahadur, Advocate
                                                  Mr. Barun Prasad, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :       Mr. Ajay Kumar Jha, A.P.P.
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

4   18-03-2026                   1. 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 offences punishable under Sections 457 and

                   380 of the Indian Penal Code.

                                 3. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the

                   petitioner submits that earlier Mr. Barun Prasad, learned

                   Advocate was appearing in the case but then he left for his

                   heavenly aboard, as such, a fresh Vakalatnama has been filed

                   yesterday i.e. 17.03.2026.

                                 4. It is next submitted that petitioner has antecedent of

                   one case and the informant alleges that on 21.01.2024 when she

                   returned home in the morning, she found that all her household

                   items such as fridge, washing machine etc. had been stolen and
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          the documents and receipts were burnt. It is further alleged that

          prior to this a motor was also stolen from her house, thus, based

          on suspicion alleges that petitioner along with other co-accused

          might be involved in the occurrence.

                       5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that

          petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the

          informant. It is further submitted that from perusal of the

          allegation as alleged in the FIR, it would manifest that based on

          suspicion, the petitioner was implicated by the informant. It is

          next submitted that during the course of investigation, one Sinu

          Kumar was arrested and his confessional statement was

          recorded and he disclosed the name of the petitioner along with

          Haricharan Kumar and one more accused. It is also submitted

          that confessional statement of an accused in police custody does

          not have any evidentiary value in the eye of law. It is further

          submitted that Haricharan Kumar had approached this Court

          seeking anticipatory bail by filing Cr. Misc. No. 78675 of 2024

          and the same came to be allowed by an order dated 25.11.2024

          passed by a learned Coordinate Bench, thus, based on parity, the

          petitioner seeks anticipatory bail.

                       6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for

          anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
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                                  7. Considering the submissions made by the learned

                     counsel for the petitioner, let the petitioner, above-named, in the

                     event of his arrest or surrender 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 Didarganj P.S. Case No. 22 of 2024, subject to the

                     conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the

                     Cr.P.C./482(2) of the B.N.S.S.


                                                                          (Satyavrat Verma, J)

Kundan/-

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