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Rajeen Aslam @ Rajeen Alam v. The State of Bihar

Patna HC1 May 2025CR. MISC./6306/2025

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Patna HC, Cr. Misc. No.6306 of 2025, decided 01-05-2025 by Chandra Prakash Singh, J — regular bail allowed to Rajeen Aslam @ Rajeen Alam u/s 365 IPC, Haspura P.S. Case No. 47/2024 (Aurangabad); implicated via confessional statement of co-accused Md. Shadab Khan (body of Sushil Kumar Singh disposed in Sone river; involvement of Saddam Hussain and Buland Akhtar); not named in FIR; custody since 19.03.2024; bail-bond Rs. 20,000 with two sureties; Court concerned Daudnagar.

What did the court decide?

Enlargement on regular bail upon furnishing bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court concerned, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, in connection with Haspura P.S. Case No. 47/2024. ¶24

Rajeen Aslam @ Rajeen Alam Vs The State of Bihar — Patna HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

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Issue for consideration

Whether the petitioner, implicated in Haspura P.S. Case No. 47/2024 (u/s 365 IPC) through the confessional statement of co-accused Md. Shadab Khan and in custody since 19.03.2024, should be enlarged on regular bail.

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Court's answer

Considering the facts and circumstances of the case and the period of custody, the petitioner was directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing a bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court concerned, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, in connection with Haspura P.S. Case No. 47/2024.

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Bail granted — Patna High Court, Criminal Miscellaneous No.6306 of 2025 (oral order dated 01-05-2025, Chandra Prakash Singh, J): Petitioner Rajeen Aslam @ Rajeen Alam, arraigned in Haspura P.S. Case No. 47/2024 dated 02.03.2024 registered u/s 365 IPC arising from the disappearance of Sushil Kumar Singh on 29.02.2024 and recovery of his beheaded body in a sack from the bank of the Sone river, was enlarged on regular bail. The petitioner was not named in the FIR; his name surfaced in the confessional statement of co-accused Md. Shadab Khan, who disclosed borrowing Rs. one lakh at 10% interest from the deceased and alleged that, on the instruction of Saddam Hussain, the petitioner along with Shadab Khan carried the sack containing the headless body for disposal, and that Shadab Khan along with the petitioner and Buland Akhtar threw the body into the Sone river to destroy the evidence of crime. Counsel for the petitioner pleaded innocence, non-naming in the FIR and clean antecedents; the State APP and informant's counsel opposed bail. Considering the facts and circumstances and the period of custody (since 19.03.2024), the Court directed release on a bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- with two like sureties to the satisfaction of the learned Court concerned, Daudnagar, Aurangabad, and allowed the application.

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.6306 of 2025

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Arising Out of PS. Case No.-47 Year-2024 Thana- HASPURA District- Aurangabad

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Rajeen Aslam @ Rajeen Alam S/o Late Salman Akhtar R/o vill - Hirdaya Chak, P.S. - Kaler, Distt.- Arwal

... ... Petitioner/s

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The State of Bihar

... ... Opposite Party/s

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====================================================== Appearance :

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For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Ranjeet Kumar Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Mohammed Arif, APP ======================================================

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH

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ORAL ORDER

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3 01-05-2025

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Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned

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counsel for the informant and learned A.P.P for the State.

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The petitioner has preferred this application for grant of regular bail in connection with Haspura P.S. Case No. 47/2024 dated 02.03.2024 registered for the offence punishable u/s 365 of the Indian Penal Code.

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As per the prosecution case, on 29.02.2024 the informant's father Sushil Kumar Singh went out of the house on luna bearing Registration No. BR 26T 4363. Till late evening he did not return to his house. On search of his father, he could not be traced out and his mobile phone (9931742427) was found switched off. During the course of investigation, the beheaded dead body of Sushil Kumar Singh has been recovered in a sack

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6306 of 2025(3) dt.01-05-2025 2/3

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from the bank of Sone river.

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Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case. The petitioner is not named in the FIR, the name of the petitioner has sprung up in the confessional statement of the coaccused, Md. Shadab Khan. The allegation against the petitioner is that on the instruction of Saddam Hussain, he along with Shadab Khan took the sack containing the headless body of the deceased to dispose it of. Subsequently, the petitioner left the body and escaped. The petitioner has clean antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The petitioner is in custody since 19.03.2024.

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Learned A.P.P. for the State as well as the learned counsel for the informant have vehemently opposed the bail petition of the petitioner by submitting that the co-accused, Md. Shadab Khan in his confessional statement disclosed that four months ago he borrowed Rs. One lakh at 10% interest from the deceased but was unable to return the said amount to him for which he hatched conspiracy and further disclosed that he along with Rajeen Aslam (petitioner), Buland Akhtar threw the dead body of the deceased in Sone river with the intention to destroy the evidence of crime.

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6306 of 2025(3) dt.01-05-2025 3/3

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Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case as well as the period of custody, the petitioner abovenamed, is directed to be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs.20,000/- (Rupees Twenty Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Court concerned, Daudnagar, Aurangabad in connection with Haspura P.S. Case No. 47/2024.

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The application stands allowed.

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(Chandra Prakash Singh, J)

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khushbu/-

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