Pradeep ManjhiversusThe State of Bihar

                      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
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           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
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :      Mr.Anand Vardhan
                 For the Opposite Party/s :      Mr.Sanjay Kumar Pandey
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                 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
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          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
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                        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.



                                                  (Satyavrat Verma, J)
Sumit/-

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