Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court, single-judge oral order of Prabhat Kumar Singh, J., dated 05-01-2024, in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 86379 of 2023 (arising out of PS Case No.-139 of 2021, Thana Jankinagar, District Purnia): second anticipatory bail application of petitioners Laxman Thakur and Bablu Thakur rejected; earlier petition had been dismissed as withdrawn on 16.10.2023 in Cr.Misc. No. 65858 of 2023; rejection rested on the grievous nature of the injuries attributed to the petitioners notwithstanding their plea of false implication in a land/village-politics dispute. Counsel: Surya Narayan Yadav for petitioners; Nirmala Kumari for the State of Bihar. Keywords: anticipatory bail, second petition, grievous injury, bail rejected, Purnia.
What did the court decide?
From bare perusal of the impugned order, the injuries caused by these petitioners have been found to be grievous in nature.