Rohit Kumar @ Rohit Kumar Das Vs The State of Bihar — Anticipatory Bail | Patna HC (2026)

Rohit Kumar @ Rohit Kumar Das Vs The State of Bihar — Anticipatory Bail | Patna HC (2026)

What the court decided

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Outcome

Anticipatory bail granted: in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks, the petitioner to be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of the learned Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-II, Jamui/concerned Court, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

Issue for consideration

Whether the petitioner, apprehending arrest in Sono P.S. Case No.276 of 2025 instituted under Sections 331(4) and 305(a) of the B.N.S., 2023, should be released on anticipatory bail.

Court's answer

Having considered the facts and circumstances, the nature of allegation, the petitioner's clean antecedent, and the fact that similarly situated co-accused persons have already been granted anticipatory bail, the Court directed that in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks, the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

Ratio / Principle

The material considerations for grant of anticipatory bail were the nature of allegation levelled against the petitioner, his clean antecedent, and parity with similarly situated co-accused persons who had already been granted anticipatory bail.

Detailed headnote1 paragraphs

Anticipatory bail granted (Patna High Court, Sunil Dutta Mishra, J., order dated 24-06-2026, Criminal Miscellaneous No.21923 of 2026): petitioner apprehending arrest in Sono P.S. Case No.276 of 2025 under Sections 331(4) and 305(a) of the B.N.S., 2023 (alleged theft in the dwelling house of the informant, household items including a T.V. said to have been sold to Ahmad Ansari). Bail allowed on grounds of the nature of allegation, clean antecedent, and parity with co-accused Ahmad Ansari and Pawan Kumar @ Pawan Kumar Das, who had already been granted anticipatory bail by Coordinate Benches vide orders dated 12.03.2026 and 21.04.2026 in Cr. Misc. No.14465 of 2026 and Cr. Misc. No.6344 of 2026. Petitioner to be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender within six weeks, on bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each, subject to the conditions in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21923 of 2026

Arising Out of PS. Case No.-276 Year-2025 Thana- SONO District- Jamui

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Rohit Kumar @ Rohit Kumar Das S/o Khelu Das @ Khelu Rabidas R/o Vill - Hadwapahadi, P.S.- Sono, Distt.- Jamui.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

The State of Bihar.

... ... Opposite Party/s

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Satya Prakash Parasar, Advocate. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Raj Ballabh Singh, APP. For the Informant : Mr. Pankay Kumar Sinha, Advocate.

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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER

5 24-06-2026

Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned

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

The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection

with Sono P.S. Case No.276 of 2025 instituted under Section 331(4) & 305(a) of the B.N.S., 2023.

As per the prosecution case, the petitioner alongwith co-accused person have committed theft in the dwelling house of informant stealing household items including one T.V. which has been sold by the petitioner and other coaccused to one Ahmad Ansari.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in this case only on the basis of suspicion. He further submits that there

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is no recovery of any stolen article from the conscious physical possession of petitioner. Learned counsel submits that recovery of T.V. is made from the co-accused Ahmad Ansari with whom the informant had compromised. He further submits that there is no material against the petitioner to implicate him in the present occurrence. Learned counsel submits that other co-accused persons, namely, Ahmad Ansari and Pawan Kumar @ Pawan Kumar Das have been granted anticipatory bail by the Coordinate Benches of this Court vide orders dated 12.03.2026 & 21.04.2026 passed in Cr. Misc. No.14465 of 2026 & Cr. Misc. No.6344 of 2026 respectively. He further submits that petitioner has got clean antecedent and he undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and trial of the case.

Learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel for the informant opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.

Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, submissions of learned counsel for the parties, the nature of allegation leveled against the petitioner and his clean antecedent as well as the fact that similarly situated co-accused persons have already been granted anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing

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bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount to each to the satisfaction of the learned Court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-II, Jamui/ concerned Court in connection with Sono P.S. Case No.276 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J)

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