Pappu Chaudhary @ Pappu Kumar Chaudhary v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Anticipatory bail; Patna High Court Criminal Miscellaneous No.3413 of 2025; decided 19-02-2025; Justice Prabhat Kumar Singh; petitioner Pappu Chaudhary @ Pappu Kumar Chaudhary; Samastipur Town P.S. Case No. 101 of 2015; Sections 341, 323, 406, 465, 468 and 34 IPC; sale deed execution refused despite Rs. 2,36,000/- consideration; FIR lodged after three-year delay (payment allegedly in 2012, FIR in 2015); dispute described as civil in nature regarding sale/purchase of land; clean antecedents; State of Bihar opposed through APP Rana Randhir Singh; petitioner's advocates Saket Kumar Jha, Pramod Kumar Yadav, Vibhuti Kumar; bail-bond Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of like amount; arrest/surrender within eight weeks; condition under Section 482 of the B.N.S.S.; Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur.
What did the court decide?
Anticipatory bail granted: in the event of arrest/surrender within eight weeks, the petitioner is to be enlarged on bail on furnishing a bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Samastipur, in connection with Samastipur Town P.S. Case No. 101 of 2015, subject to the condition laid down under Section 482 of the B.N.S.S.