Sonu Kumar v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Bail refused: single-judge oral order of Patna High Court rejecting regular bail; offence charged under Sections 140(3) of the BNS, 2023; Rajpur P.S. Case No. 264 of 2024, District Buxar; death of Ankit Kumar Maurya; last-seen-together circumstance (deceased on petitioner's motorcycle); mobile phones of accused and deceased both switched off; CDR evidence of repeated calls between petitioner and deceased on the date of occurrence; calls to number held by Pooja Kumari, whose case-diary statement (para 39) concerned affectionate relations with petitioner and deceased; post-mortem: sharp cut injury on anterior neck; defence cited innocence, no motive, relative of deceased, Aditya Kumar's statement not recorded, no eyewitness; Cr. MISC. No.13757 of 2025; decided 09-05-2025; Justice Nawneet Kumar Pandey.
What did the court decide?
Considering the above-mentioned facts and circumstances as well as the gravity of the allegation, the Court did not consider it a fit case for bail and rejected the petitioner's regular bail application.