Muntun Sahani @ Muntun Kumar v. the State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court, Criminal Miscellaneous No.39162 of 2024 (arising out of Vaishali P.S. Case No.224 of 2022, District Vaishali), decided 12-08-2024 by Satyavrat Verma, J. Anticipatory bail allowed for four petitioners (Muntun Sahani @ Muntun Kumar, Rohit Kumar, Birchandra Sahani @ Bichindra Sahani, Lakhendra Sahani) in a case under Sections 341, 323, 324, 307, 354(B), 379, 504, 506, 34 IPC and Section 27 Arms Act. Bail bond Rs. 10,000 each with two like sureties; surrender/arrest window of six weeks; Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. conditions apply; trial court directed to verify criminal antecedents, and the order will not enure to a petitioner having even one prior case. Keywords: anticipatory bail, conditional bail, clean antecedent, case diary not received, A.P.P. Rabindra Kumar, advocates Abhishek Kumar and Hemant Ray.
What did the court decide?
Anticipatory bail granted to all four petitioners: on arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within six weeks, to be released on bail on furnishing bail-bonds of Rs. 10,000 each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Vaishali at Hajipur, subject to Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. conditions; trial Court to verify criminal antecedents before accepting bail bonds, failing which the order shall not operate for a petitioner with criminal antecedents.