Ranjit Kumar @ Ranjeet Kumar v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court; Criminal Appeal (SJ) No.935 of 2025; decision date 17-12-2025; Shailendra Singh, J; appellants Ranjit Kumar, Sanjit Kumar, Surendra Kumar sons of Vijay Yadav vs State of Bihar and informant Pradeep Kumar Paswan; anticipatory bail; appeal under Section 14A(2) SC/ST Act 1989; rejection by Exclusive Special Judge SC/ST Gaya in A.B.P. No. 22/2025; M.U. P.S. Case No. 261 of 2024, District Gaya; BNS 2023 Sections 126(2), 352, 351(1), 115(2), 74, 303(2), 3(5); SC/ST Act Sections 3(1)(r)(s) and 3(2)(va); Section 482(2) BNSS conditions; no external injury found on informant despite alleged assault with iron rods, lathis, bricks; case and counter-case between parties; bail bond Rs. 20,000 each with two like sureties; surrender/arrest within six weeks; appeal allowed; impugned order set aside.
What did the court decide?
Appeal allowed; impugned order of rejection set aside. All three appellants directed to be released on anticipatory bail upon arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within six weeks, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of the learned Exclusive Special Judge SC/ST, Gaya, in connection with M.U. P.S. Case No. 261 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.