Mukesh Kushwaha @ Mukesh Bhagat @ Mukesh Kumar Bhagat v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6265 of 2025(5), dt.21-05-2025, Justice Soni Shrivastava (oral order): bail allowed to Mukesh Kushwaha @ Mukesh Bhagat @ Mukesh Kumar Bhagat arising out of Gopalganj Town P.S Case No. 221 of 2020 (Sections 307, 326, 34, 302 IPC; Section 27 Arms Act). Key points: FIR attributes chin gunshot to petitioner but postmortem records death from septicemia due to stitched lower-back wound caused by shot attributed to co-accused Bhushan Kushwaha; postmortem silent on chin injury; custody since 17.01.2024; no trial progress after framing of charge; bail bond Rs.10,000/- with two sureties; conditions on antecedent verification, trial attendance and family-member bailor. Advocates: Ansul (Sr. Adv.), Vyas Kumar Mishra, Anshul Aaryan, Aditya Raj Singh (petitioner); Raj Kishor Singh, APP (State); Sanjay Kumar (informant).
What did the court decide?
Petitioner enlarged on bail in connection with Gopalganj Town P.S Case No. 221 of 2020 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount, each, to the satisfaction of learned Additional Sessions Judge-XV, Gopalganj, subject to: (i) expeditious verification of the petitioner's criminal antecedents; (ii) petitioner's physical presence on all trial dates, absence on two consecutive dates giving the learned Court below liberty to cancel the bail bonds; and (iii) one of the bailors being a family member or close relative of the petitioner.