Hira Ram @ Hira Lal Ram Vs The State of Bihar — Anticipatory Bail | Patna HC (2026)

Hira Ram @ Hira Lal Ram Vs The State of Bihar — Anticipatory Bail | Patna HC (2026)

What the court decided

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Outcome

Anticipatory bail: petitioner directed to be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the court below within six weeks, on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of the learned Trial Court, subject to the conditions under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S., in connection with Baheri P.S. Case No.127 of 2025.

Issue for consideration

Whether the petitioner, arrayed with co-accused Sanjay for allegedly assaulting the informant's husband and dewar with a tangari during a land dispute, is entitled to bail in anticipation of arrest in Baheri P.S. Case No.127 of 2025.

Court's answer

Anticipatory bail granted: in the event of arrest or surrender within six weeks the petitioner is to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each, subject to the conditions under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.; the Court was influenced by his clean antecedents, the single blow not alleged to have been repeated, the injury opined simple, and the four-day delay in institution of the FIR.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Anticipatory bail granted. The Patna High Court (Satyavrat Verma, J.) allowed Criminal Miscellaneous No.1244 of 2026 arising out of Baheri P.S. Case No.127 of 2025, District Darbhanga, in which the petitioner, Hira Ram @ Hira Lal Ram, was sought for offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 109(1), 76, 303(2), 352, 351(2) and 3(5) of the B.N.S. The FIR alleged that the petitioner assaulted the informant's husband with a tangari causing a head injury while co-accused Sanjay similarly assaulted her dewar; the injuries were opined simple and the blow was not alleged to have been repeated. The occurrence was of 07.04.2025 and the FIR was instituted on 11.04.2025, i.e. after a delay of four days. Noting the petitioner's clean antecedents, the simple nature of the injury, the single blow and the FIR delay, and arising from a land dispute, the Court directed release on bail in the event of arrest or surrender within six weeks on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S. Counsel had distinguished the earlier anticipatory-bail order in Cr. Misc. No.47588 of 2025 (Bahuri Devi and nine others) as inapplicable, there being a specific allegation against the petitioner.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.1244 of 2026

Arising Out of PS. Case No.-127 Year-2025 Thana- BAHERI District- Darbhanga

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Hira Ram @ Hira Lal Ram S/o Sahdev Ram R/o Village - Balant, P.S - Baheri, District - Darbhanga

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar

... ... Opposite Party/s

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Baidyanath Prasad For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Jharkhandi Upadhyay ======================================================

CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER

2 27-04-2026

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 126(2), 115(2), 118(1), 109(1), 76, 303(2), 352, 351(2), 3(5) of the B.N.S.

The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. It is further submitted that Bahuri Devi along with nine others had approached this Court seeking anticipatory bail by filing Cr. Misc. No.47588 of 2025 and the same came to be allowed by an order dated 30.07.2025, but then it is submitted that case of the petitioner is not akin to the case of Bahuri Devi and others as in the FIR, there is specific allegation against the petitioner of

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assaulting informant’s husband by tangari causing injury on head while Sanjay assaulted her dewar by tangari causing injury on head, but then it is submitted that the injury has been opined to be simple and the blow is not alleged to have been repeated and the date of occurrence is 07.04.2025 and the FIR came to be instituted on 11.04.2025 ie. after delay of four days without any plausible explanation It is also submitted that petitioner is not a criminal and on account of dispute relating to land the occurrence is alleged to have taken place.

Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into the consideration the fact that petitioner is a person with clean and the blow is not alleged to be repeated and the injury has been opined to be simple and the FIR has been instituted after a delay of four days, the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bailbonds in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Trial Court where the case is pending/successor Court in

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connection with Baheri P. S. Case No.127 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 482(2) of the B.N.S.S.

The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J)

vikash/-

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