Patna High Court
Md. SajjadversusThe State of Bihar
- Decided
- Disposal
- REJECTED
- Bench
- ALOK KUMAR SINHA
Holding
The court held that anticipatory bail cannot be granted as the petitioner is the principal assailant responsible for causing grievous injury.
Summary
The petitioner, Md. Sajjad, applied for anticipatory bail after being implicated in a case (PS No.534 of 2023) involving multiple offences under the IPC, including assault, robbery, and causing grievous hurt. The prosecution alleged that on 21 November 2023, the petitioner and others attacked an informant and his granddaughter, injuring the girl severely. The petitioner claimed innocence, alleging the case was false and motivated by political rivalry and a prior road accident involving the informant. The court examined the injury report, which confirmed a grievous head injury to the granddaughter, and found the petitioner to be the main assailant. Considering the seriousness of the alleged offences and the victim's injury, the court declined to grant anticipatory bail. Consequently, the anticipatory bail application was rejected.
Issues considered
- Whether anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner under Section 438 of the CrPC given the alleged offences under the IPC.
Legislation cited
- Indian Penal Code — s. 147, 149, 307, 325, 341, 342, 379, 506
Subjects
- anticipatory bail
- Indian Penal Code
- assault
- grievous hurt
- false implication
- political rivalry
Judgment
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.87527 of 2025
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-534 Year-2023 Thana- BOCHAHAN District- Muzaffarpur
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Md. Sajjad Son of Late Md. Mobarak Hushain Resident of Ramnagar, P.S.-
Gaighat, District - Muzaffarpur, Bihar.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Vibhuti Kumar, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tiwary, APP
Mr. Abhinav Shandilya, Adv.
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ALOK KUMAR SINHA
ORAL ORDER
3 24-02-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned
counsel for the informant and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection
with Bochaha P.S. Case No.534 of 2023 registered for the
offence under Sections 147, 341, 342, 325, 307, 506, 379, 149
of the IPC.
3. As per prosecution case, on 21.11.2023 at about
1:00 pm, the informant was going to drop his grand daughter
and to buy cement from the shop situated at Zero Mile Chowk.
The informant was having rupees two lakhs for purchasing the
cement. When he reached near Ratna Bricks Kiln in Unsar
Village, three-three persons on three motorcycle namely Md.
Sajjad, Md. Lalbabu and Md. Irfan, Md. Julfekar, Md. Danish,
Md. Varish, Md. Chhotu, Md. Aamir and Md. Sanaullahı
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surrounded them and they started assaulting the informant and
his grand-daughter with Danda and iron-rod. The accused
persons got the informant and his grand-daughter fell from the
bike and when the informant's grand-daughter started crying,
then, the accused Md. Sajjad attacked at her head and got her
injured by which she became unconscious. On the alarm, the
labour from the field and bricks kiln came there and saved them.
In the meantime, the accused Md. Lalbabu and Md. Aamir took
the bag of the informant containing Rs.2 lakhs and all the
accused persons fled away giving threatening them. The
informant took his grand-daughter to SKMCH, Muzaffarpur
with the help of people from where she was referred to Patna,
then, she was admitted in Tara Hospital Patna.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that
petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence as alleged
in the FIR and he has falsely been implicated in this case.
Further submits that on the alleged date of occurrence, the
informant and his granddaughter had met with a major road
accident, and take advantage of that accident, the informant has
filed this false case, with whom the petitioner had pre-existing
enmity. Further submits that due to political rivalry, the
informant has filed this false and malicious case against the
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petitioner.
5. The learned APP as well as learned counsel for the
informant opposes the anticipatory bail application.
6. After having gone through the records, it appears
that the petitioner is the main assailant who is alleged to have
assaulted on the head of the granddaughter of the informant by
which she sustained injury over head and fell down. The injury
report of the injured Nasreen Khatoon shows that she sustained
injury of swelling of size 4”x4” cm on the left parietal occipital
region and after seeing her NCCT head report, her injury has
been assessed as grievous by the doctor.
7. Considering these facts and circumstances and
particularly taking note of the fact that the petitioner is a main
assailant who has assaulted the granddaughter of the informant,
which has led to grievances injury on her head, this Court is not
inclined to grant the anticipatory bail to the petitioner..
8. Accordingly, the anticipatory bail application is
rejected.
(Alok Kumar Sinha, J)
Prakash Narayan
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