Vijay Singh v. The State of Bihar
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Patna High Court, single judge (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J), order dated 03-11-2025, Criminal Miscellaneous No.72931 of 2025 (arising out of Chenari P.S. Case No.287 of 2025, Thana Chenari, District Rohtas). Petitioner Vijay Singh sought anticipatory bail apprehending arrest in a B.N.S. 2023 case registered under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 109(1), 351(2), 352, 3(5); prosecution alleged that petitioner with two co-accused assaulted the informant and his nephew Pankaj Kumar on their heads causing injury. Defence (Ashutosh Tripathy, Advocate) pleaded innocence, false implication due to previous enmity, case and counter case, altercation with injuries to both sides, simple injury on informant's side, co-villagers, trivial issue, clean antecedent, undertaking to cooperate; State (Ashok Kumar Singh, APP) opposed. Court allowed the prayer conditionally: release on bail upon arrest or surrender within six weeks, bail bond Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount, to the satisfaction of CJM, Rohtas at Sasaram, subject to Section 482(2) BNSS 2023 conditions. Keywords: anticipatory bail, conditional bail, six weeks, BNS 2023, BNSS Section 482(2), Rohtas, Sasaram, Chenari.