Niraj Kumar Vs The State of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Bishwa Bijay Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Shahabuddin Azeem @ S. Azeem, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA ORAL ORDER

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4 04-05-2026

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Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and

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learned A.P.P. for the State.

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The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered under Sections 303(2) and 334(1) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.

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As per the F.I.R., on 08.07.2025 at around 9:00 P.M., the informant closed his shop and went to his house. It is alleged that at 12:30 A.M., informant heard the knocking sound due to which, he woke up and saw that the accused persons including the petitioner were in the shop of the informant by breaking the lock. When informant started shouting, all the accused persons fled away. Thereafter, informant went to his shop and found that the accused persons have stolen the money box containing Rs.15,000/-.

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2931 of 2026(4) dt.04-05-2026 2/3

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Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case due to village politics. Further submission is that petitioner was neither present on the spot nor he has any concern with the other co-accused persons. Nothing incriminating material has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. He next submits that it is doubtful that how the informant has seen the accused persons at the time of breaking of the lock of his shop when he was sleeping at the roof of the house. Petitioner is a young boy of 25 years having no criminal antecedent and he undertakes to cooperate in the investigation and trial.

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Learned A.P.P. for the State opposed the prayer for

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bail.

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Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, submissions of learned counsel for the parties, young age of the petitioner and his clean antecedent as well as the fact that no incriminating material has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner, let the above named petitioner be released on bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten

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Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.2931 of 2026(4) dt.04-05-2026 3/3

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Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate-I, Hilsa, Nalanda in connection with Karai Parsurai P.S. Case No. 153 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita.

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(Sunil Dutta Mishra, J)

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Niraj Kumar v. The State of Bihar

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