Patna High Court
Sunil Kumar Ranjan @ Bittu KumarversusThe State of Bihar
- Decided
- Disposal
- BAIL GRANTED
- Bench
- SATYAVRAT VERMA
Holding
The court allowed the anticipatory bail application, directing release on bail with conditions under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.
Summary
The petitioner, Sunil Kumar Ranjan, sought anticipatory bail after being implicated in a FIR alleging multiple offences under the Bihar Negotiable Statutes, 2023, including assault and robbery. He asserted a clean antecedent and claimed the informant falsely implicated him, contending that the alleged injury to the victim was simple and merely a laceration. The State opposed the bail, but the investigating officer confirmed the injury was simple. The court considered the petitioner’s clean record, the nature of the injury, and the possibility of false implication, and ordered that he be released on anticipatory bail upon furnishing a bail bond of Rs. 10,000 with two sureties, subject to conditions under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. The personal appearance of the investigating officer was dispensed with, and the anticipatory bail application was allowed.
Issues considered
- Whether anticipatory bail can be granted to the petitioner under Section 482(2) of the BNSS despite the serious charges.
- Whether the nature of the alleged injury (simple laceration) influences the grant of bail.
- Whether the claim of false implication and the petitioner’s clean antecedent justify anticipatory bail.
Subjects
- anticipatory bail
- Section 482
- false implication
- simple injury
- clean antecedent
- Bihar criminal law
Judgment
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.86234 of 2025
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-97 Year-2025 Thana- RIGA District- Sitamarhi
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Sunil Kumar Ranjan @ Bittu Kumar S/O Bhikau Ram Resident of village-
Panchoar, Riga, P.S.- Riga, District- Sitamarhi
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Ayush Kumar, Advocate
For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Ram Naresh Ray, APP
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
ORAL ORDER
4 10-03-2026 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 126(2),
115(2), 118(1), 109, 117(2), 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the
BNS, 2023.
3. In compliance of the order dated 19.02.2026, the
Investigating Officer of the case is present in the Court.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that
petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant
alleges that while he was returning home, he was intercepted by
the accused persons including the petitioner, further the
petitioner said that on 26.02.2025 he has abused his father hence
he will kill him and thereafter assaulted him by gandasa causing
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injury on head, thereafter other accused persons assaulted him
by rod, lathi etc. while Shail Devi assaulted Ravi by rod causing
injury on hand, further petitioner caught his hand while Shiv
Shankar and Guddu caught both his hands and Vikash started
strangulating him and Shail Devi took his chain and Guddu
snatched Rs. 10,000/-.
5. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that
petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the
informant, it is next submitted that even presuming what has
been alleged is true without admitting then allegation against the
petitioner is of assaulting the injured by gandasa causing injury
on head, but then it is submitted that the injury suffered by the
injured has been opined to be simple in nature and the wound is
lacerated. It is also submitted that there is a dispute in between
the parties relating to land, as such, an altercation had taken
place in which both sides assaulted each other and from side of
the petitioner, Riga P.S. Case No. 82 of 2025 came to be
instituted, as such, the instant FIR is a counterblast.
6. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the
anticipatory bail application of the petitioner, but then fairly
submits, based on instruction of the Investigating Officer, that
the injury suffered by the injured has been opined to be simple
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and the wound is lacerated.
7. Considering the submissions made by the learned
counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the fact
that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the injury
has been opined to be simple, 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 Riga P.S. Case No. 97 of 2025 subject to the conditions as
laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS.
8. Accordingly, the instant anticipatory bail
application is allowed.
9. The personal appearance of the Investigating
Officer is dispensed with.
(Satyavrat Verma, J)
Rishabh/-
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