Manoj MandalversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.9475 of 2026
                       Arising Out of PS. Case No.-144 Year-2025 Thana- Ghogha District- Bhagalpur
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           1.     Manoj Mandal S/O Late Bhagwan Mandal R/O Village- Kulkuliya Ward No.
                  02, P.S- Ghogha, Dist.- Bhagalpur.
           2.    Gunjan Devi W/O Manoj Mandal R/O Village- Kulkuliya Ward No. 02, P.S-
                 Ghogha, Dist.- Bhagalpur.

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

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :        Mr. Kamal Kumar Sinha
                 For the Opposite Party/s :        Mr. Jharkhandi Upadhyay
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   26-03-2026                  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 115 (2),

                   126(2), 109(1), 352, 303(2) and 3(5) of the B.N.S.

                                3. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that

                   petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and the informant

                   alleges that goat of his brother grazed his field, on account of

                   which, an altercation took place and petitioner no.1 assaulted

                   him by iron rod causing injury on head and also took Rs.3000/-

                   from his pocket.

                                4. Learned counsel submits that petitioner no.1 and
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          the informant are own brother and on a trivial dispute of the

          goat of the petitioner grazing the field of the informant led to an

          altercation in which both side assaulted each other. It is also

          submitted that no doubt it is alleged that petitioner no.1

          assaulted the informant by rod causing injury on head on

          21.09.2025 but then the fardbeyan of the informant was

          recorded in the hospital on 30.09.2025 i.e. 9 days after the

          occurrence, which also casts an aspersion on the case of the

          prosecution that as to whether the informant was admitted in the

          hospital on account of assault made by the petitioner no.1 or he

          got injured in some other occurrence. It is also submitted that

          informant and petitioner no.1 resides jointly and 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 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 learned

          trial court where the case is pending/successor court in
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                       connection with Ghogha P.S. Case No.144/2025, subject to the

                       conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.



                                                 (Satyavrat Verma, J)
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