Patna High Court
Yadolal Rai @ Yadav Lal RaiversusThe State of Bihar
- Decided
- Disposal
- DISPOSED
- Bench
- SATYAVRAT VERMA
Holding
Anticipatory bail was granted to petitioner No.1 with conditions, and the anticipatory bail application for petitioner No.2 was dismissed as withdrawn.
Summary
Petitioner No.1, Yadolal Rai, a 68‑year‑old senior citizen with a clean record, applied for anticipatory bail in a case alleging his involvement in the looting of Rs.95,000 and assault on the informant. The FIR charges him under Sections 126(2), 322, 118(1), 109(1), 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the Bihar Negotiable Instruments Act, 2023. The petition also included his son, Shyambabu Rai, as a co‑applicant, but the petitioner sought to withdraw the anticipatory bail request for the son, which the court permitted. After hearing the parties, the court found that the allegations against petitioner No.1 were not prima facie established and that he was falsely implicated. Consequently, the court granted anticipatory bail to petitioner No.1 subject to a bail bond and sureties, while dismissing the application as withdrawn for petitioner No.2.
Issues considered
- Whether anticipatory bail should be granted to petitioner No.1 under the cited sections of the Bihar Negotiable Instruments Act, 2023.
- Whether the anticipatory bail application for petitioner No.2 can be withdrawn at the petitioner's request.
Subjects
- anticipatory bail
- false implication
- senior citizen
- criminal procedure
- Bihar Negotiable Instruments Act
- bail bond
- withdrawal of application
Judgment
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.87008 of 2025
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-172 Year-2025 Thana- DUMARIAGHAT District- East
Champaran
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1. Yadolal Rai @ Yadav Lal Rai S/o Late Ramavtar Rai Resident of village -
Mangalpur, P.S - Dumariyaghat, District - East Champaran
2. Shyambabu Rai @ Shyam Babu Prasad Yadav S/o Yadolal Rai @ Yadav Lal
Rai Resident of village - Mangalpur, P.S - Dumariyaghat, District - East
Champaran
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Advocate
For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Damodar Prasad Tiwary, APP
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
ORAL ORDER
2 12-03-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned
APP for the State.
2. Learned counsel for the petitioner, after some
argument, seeks permission to withdraw the anticipatory bail
application with respect to petitioner no.2, namely, Shyambabu
Rai @ Shyam Babu Prasad Yadav.
3. Permission is accorded.
4. The instant anticipatory bail application is
dismissed as withdrawn so far as petitioner no.2, namely,
Shyambabu Rai @ Shyam Babu Prasad Yadav is concerned.
5. Petitioner No.1 apprehends his arrest in a case
registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2),
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322, 118(1), 109(1), 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of B.N.S.,
2023.
6. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that
petitioner no.1 is a person with clean antecedent and the
informant alleges that on 17.06.2025 he was going to purchase
buffalo, thus, was carrying Rs.95,000/- but was intercepted by
the accused persons including the petitioner and on orders of
petitioner, accused Shyambabu Rai and Himanshu Kumar looted
Rs.95,000/- which he was carrying, thereafter, Shyambabu Rai
assaulted him by Khukhri causing injury on head and right
hand.
7. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that
petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the
informant. It is next submitted that petitioner is a senior citizen,
aged about 68 years, and has remained a person with clean
antecedent all throughout and all of a sudden has been made an
accused in the instant case with an allegation that on his orders,
Rs.95,000/-, which the informant was carrying, was looted by
the named accused persons and Shyambabu Rai assaulted him
by Khukhri causing injury on his head and right hand. It is
further submitted that from perusal of the allegation, as alleged
in the FIR, it would manifest that it does not appear probable
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that all of a sudden, the accused persons would have appeared
and assaulted the informant after snatching Rs.95,000/-. It is
also submitted that the informant and the petitioner belong to
the same village but then it is fairly submitted that the injury
suffered by the informant on account of assault made by
Shyambabu Rai has been opined to be grievous in nature.
8. Learned APP opposes the anticipatory bail
application.
9. Considering the submissions made by learned
counsel for the petitioner, let petitioner no.1, above named, in
the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks
from today, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of
Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like
amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate,
1st Class, East Champaran, Motihari in connection with
Dumariyaghat P.S. Case No.172 of 2025, subject to the
conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of B.N.S.S.
(Satyavrat Verma, J)
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