Patna High Court

Lalji Sahani @ Lalji KumarversusThe State Of Bihar

Decided: 6 February 2026
Disposal: ALLOWED
Bench: ALOK KUMAR PANDEY

Holding

The Court modified the order to reflect the correct address and extended the time for furnishing bail bonds by six weeks.

Summary

The petitioner, Lalji Sahani, filed an application seeking modification of the order dated 24‑09‑2025 to correct a clerical error in his address and to obtain an extension of time to furnish bail bonds. The order mistakenly recorded his address as Village‑Dipahu, Dhangad Toli, P.S.‑Kotwa, whereas the correct address is Village‑Jhitkahiya, P.S.‑Lakhaura, District‑East Champaran, Motihari. The State had no objection to correcting the address. The Court, after considering the facts, read the correct address into the earlier order and extended the period for surrendering the bail bond by six weeks on the same terms. Consequently, the modification application was allowed and the earlier order was accordingly amended.

Issues considered

Whether the order dated 24‑09‑2025 can be modified to correct the petitioner’s address?
Whether the time for furnishing bail bonds can be extended by the Court?

Subjects

bail
address correction
modification of order
criminal procedure
High Court
procedural amendment

Judgment

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.6752 of 2026
                                              In
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65599 of 2025
                 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-165 Year-2025 Thana- LAKHAURA District- East Champaran
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                 Lalji Sahani @ Lalji Kumar S/O Late Manju Sahani R/O Vill.- Jitkahiya, P.S.-
                 Lakhaura, District- East Champaran

                                                                                 ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                      Versus
                 The State Of Bihar.

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr. Rajesh Kumar, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Mr. Lalan Kumar, A.P.P.
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR PANDEY
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   06-02-2026                  Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   A.P.P. for the State.

                                2. The present application has been filed seeking

                   modification of the order dated 24.09.2025 passed in Criminal

                   Miscellaneous No. 65599 of 2025, confined to correction of the

                   address of the petitioner as mentioned in the said order as well

                   as extension of time for furnishing bail bonds of the petitioner

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that due

                   to an inadvertent error, the address of the petitioner has been

                   wrongly mentioned in the order dated 24.09.2025 as Village–

                   Dipahu, Dhangad Toli, P.S.–Kotwa, District–East Champaran,

                   whereas the correct and actual address of the petitioner, as
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          reflected in the F.I.R., is Village–Jhitkahiya, P.S.–Lakhaura,

          District–East Champaran, Motihari but due to mistake in order

          of Special Judge the address of petitioner is given as Village-

          Dipahu, Dhangad tolili, P.S. Kotwa, District-East Champaran

          and on account of the said discrepancy, the bail bond of the

          petitioner could not be accepted by the concerned trial court. It

          is submitted that the correct address of the petitioner is Village-

          Jhitkahiya, P.S. Lakhaura, District- East Champaran, Motihari.

          Hence, he prays that addressof the petitioner be modified as

          Village- Jhitkahiya, P.S. Lakhaura, District- East Champaran,

          Motihari.

                       4. Learned A.P.P. for the State has no objection to the

          prayer made for correction of the address.

                       5. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case

          and the submissions advanced on behalf of the parties, in the

          order dated 24.09.2025, in place of address of petitioner

          -Village–Dipahu, Dhangad Toli, P.S.–Kotwa, District–East

          Champaran, it be read as Village- Jhitkahiya, P.S. Lakhaura,

          District- East Champaran, Motihari and time for surrender of the

          petitioner for furnishing bail bonds is extended by a further

          period of six weeks from today, on the same terms and

          conditions as stipulated in the order dated 24.09.2025 passed in
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                      Criminal Miscellaneous No. 65599 of 2025, in connection with

                      Lakhaura P.S. Case No. 165 of 2025, to the satisfaction of the

                      learned Special Judge, Excise Court No. 1, East Champaran,

                      Motihari.

                                   6. Accordingly, the order dated 24.09.2025 passed in

                      Criminal Miscellaneous No. 65599 of 2025 is modified to the

                      extent stated above.

                                   7. The modification application, accordingly, stands

                      allowed.



                                                  (Alok Kumar Pandey, J)
Nilmani/-

U      T

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