The High Court of Patna granted anticipatory bail to the petitioner, allowing arrest only if surrendering within eight weeks and furnishing a bond of Rs. 10,000 with two sureties of similar amount.
Anticipatory bail allowed subject to arrest within eight weeks and furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000 with two sureties of Rs. 10,000 each.
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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.56938 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-282 Year-2023 Thana- MADHEPURA District- Madhepura
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Prashant Kumar S/O Kameshwar Mandal @ Kameshwar Sharma @ Kamleshwar Mandal R/O Village- Kishanpur, Ward no. 11, P.S- Alamnagar (Ratwara O.P), District- Madhepura.
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The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Rajendra Lal Das, Advocate Mr. Surya Narayan Yadav, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Anil Kumar, A.P.P. ======================================================
CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER
2 17-08-2026
Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State.
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informant asked Nilkamal to contact with the owner of alleged company for returning his franchise money on which coaccused Nilkamal became furious and started abusing both of them, and thereafter, on his call, other FIR named accused persons, including the petitioner, came there and the accused persons misbehaved with them and assaulted the informant Vikky Dangi and Amar Kumar and both were kept confined by Nilkamal until receiving his franchise money from the company, and in that course, the accused transferred Rs. 5500/- plus Rs. 3000/- forcibly from the informant's mobile as well as informant's colleague's mobile and forcibly took their signatures on a stamp-paper and tore three blank cheques and took the signature of informant thereon also by the accused forcibly. There is also allegation of threatening with dire consequence to informant and his colleague, if co-accused Nilkamal's franchise money Rs. 8.44,000/- is not returned by the company immediately. It is said that when the police came at the shop of co-accused Nilkamal then both of them were released from the clutch of accused persons.
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assault is against co-accused Nilkamal and there is absolutely no allegation of any specific overt act against petitioner. Rest of the allegations are ornamental. Co-accused, namely, Nilkamal has already been granted anticipatory bail by co-ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 06.09.2023 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 45959 of 2023. Petitioner claims clean antecedent.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J)
Navya/- U T
1 issue framed by the court
Whether anticipatory bail should be granted to the petitioner in case of arrest.
1 provisions across 1 enactments
Prashant Kumar
The State of Bihar
Prabhat Kumar Singh
As recorded by the court registry
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