Patna High Court
CR. MISC./55335/2026 of Dinesh Mandal @ Dinesh Kumar Mandal Vs The State of Bihar on 20 August 2026
COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.55335 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-97 Year-2025 Thana- Narhiya District- Madhubani ====================================================== Dinesh Mandal @ Dinesh Kumar Mandal S/o Lal Mandal @ Lalbahadur Mandal R/o vill - Jhitaki, P.S.-
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.55335 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-97 Year-2025 Thana- Narhiya District- Madhubani ======================================================
Dinesh Mandal @ Dinesh Kumar Mandal S/o Lal Mandal @ Lalbahadur Mandal R/o vill - Jhitaki, P.S.- Narhiya, Distt.- Madhubani
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s
:
Mr. Baleshwar Kamat
For the Opposite Party/s :
Ms. Anita Kumari
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA
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ORAL ORDER
20-08-2026
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 190, 126(2), 115(2), 125(a), 125(b), 132 and 109 of BNS, 2023.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that on account of an accident a person died, thus, he reached the place of occurrence and saw that a dead body was lying and people had blocked NH-57 and when the informant tried to reason out with the mob, the accused persons assaulted him and other police personnel by lathi and stick causing injury on his head and the crowd vandalized the Static Surveillance Post, hence the informant fled and when force came, the blockade was cleared and dead body was sent for postmortem.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.55335 of 2026(2) dt.20-08-2026
petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant, it is next submitted that petitioner resides nearby to the place of occurrence and when ruckus was being created, as such, out of inquisitiveness, he came to the place of occurrence to witness the occurrence when he came to be implicated. It is also submitted that allegation of assault is general and omnibus in nature. It is reiterated and submitted that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory 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 trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Narhiya P.S. Case No. 97 of 2025 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS.
Rishabh/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T