Upendra Yadav @ Paiyru Yadav v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court, Criminal Appeal (SJ) No. 1285 of 2025, decided 10-11-2025 by Justice Prabhat Kumar Singh. Appeal against order dated 11.02.2025 rejecting anticipatory bail of Upendra Yadav @ Paiyru Yadav, an FIR-named accused in PS Case No.-516 of 2024 (Pirpainti PS, Bhagalpur) under sections 103(2), 3(5) BNS and sections 3(i)(r), 3(1)(s), 3(2)(v)(a) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act, for the murder of informant Kushma Devi's son, who was allegedly strangulated with a rope in the Bas Bitta after refusing to withdraw earlier Pirpainti P.S. Case No. 485 of 2024; defence plea of suspicion-only and clean antecedents rejected; appeal dismissed.
What did the court decide?
Considering the aforesaid facts, the seriousness and nature of the accusation and the gravity of the offence, the Court did not find any reason to interfere with the impugned order rejecting anticipatory bail, and accordingly dismissed the appeal.