Case brief
What is this about?
Regular bail granted; Arms Act Sections 25(1-b)a and 26; recovery of two country-made pistols and twelve live cartridges; Banmankhi PS Case No. 441 of 2024; Purnia; judicial custody since 06.12.2024; no criminal antecedent; no independent witness to search and seizure; bail after framing of charge; bail bond Rs. 10,000 with two like sureties; CJM Purnea; close relative as bailor; attendance condition with cancellation risk; Patna High Court CR. MISC. No. 22020 of 2025; Justice S. B. Pd. Singh; order dated 28-04-2025; State opposed through learned APP.
What did the court decide?
Regular bail allowed: petitioner to be enlarged on bail after framing of charge in connection with Banmankhi P.S. Case No. 441 of 2024, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M., Purnea, subject to conditions that (i) one of the bailors should be a close relative of the petitioner and (ii) the petitioner shall co-operate in the trial and be present on each and every fixed date, absence on two consecutive dates without sufficient reason permitting the learned trial Court to cancel his bail bonds.