The Patna High Court granted regular bail to three petitioners accused in a criminal case involving abduction attempts and armed resistance, noting no specific abduction charge against them and their clean antecedents.
Release on bail upon furnishing a bond of Rs. 10,000 each with two sureties.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.39432 of 2017
Arising Out of PS.Case No. -26 Year- 2017 Thana -RATANPURA District- SUPAUL
====================================================== 1.Dipak Kumar Mehta, S/o Parsuram Mehta, R/o Village- Dumri, P.S. Karjain, District- Supaul.
.... .... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
.... .... Opposite Party/s
====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Arun For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Smt. Anita Kumari Singh
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE MOHIT KUMAR SHAH ORAL ORDER
2 19-08-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners.
The petitioners seek regular bail in connection with Ratanpura P.S. Case No. 26 of 2017, registered for the offence punishable under Sections 147, 149, 341, 342, 323, 366A/511 of the Indian Penal Code.
The case of the prosecution is that two persons had come to the house of the informant and unsuccessfully tried to abduct his daughter and thereafter, the people of the locality had apprehended the said two accused persons and kept them confined in the mohalla. The further case of the prosecution is that when the talks for settlement had failed the petitioner and other co-accused persons had come there and fled away with the said accused person said to have been apprehended by the people of the
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locality.
Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that as far as the petitioners are concerned, no allegation of abduction of the daughter of the informant has been leveled against them. The petitioners have clean antecedent and are in custody since 16.05.2017.
Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, I find that this is fit case in which the petitioners should be released on bail.
Accordingly, the above named, petitioners are directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Birpur
(Supaul) in connection with Ratanpura P.S. Case No. 26 of 2017.
(Mohit Kumar Shah, J)
khushbu/-
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1 issue framed by the court
Whether the petitioners should be released on regular bail given the facts of the case and their clean antecedents.
Dipak Kumar Mehta
Bhupesh Kumar Mehta
Pankaj Kumar Mehta
The State of Bihar
Mohit Kumar Shah
As recorded by the court registry
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