Baleshwar Ray v. The State Of Bihar and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court, Criminal Miscellaneous No. 884 of 2019 (P.S. Case No. 19/2018, Thana Salakhua, District Saharsa); petitioner Baleshwar Ray vs The State of Bihar and others; application for cancellation of bail filed in 2019 dismissed for non-prosecution on 02-02-2026 (Justice Smt. Soni Shrivastava) after repeated non-appearance/non-appearance-related adjournments by petitioner's side and observation that petitioner had lost interest; no merits ruling on bail cancellation. Keywords: cancellation of bail, dismissal for non-prosecution, non-appearance, adjournment, Saharsa, Salakhua.
What did the court decide?
Across the life of the matter, learned counsel for the petitioner repeatedly failed to appear or took adjournments; by the order dated 29.01.2026 and again on 02.02.2026, despite repeated calls, nobody appeared to press the application; the Court observed that the petitioner appears to have lost interest in the old matter.