Champaran v. The State of Bihar

====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : For the Opposite Party/s : ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUDHIR SINGH Mr.Prateek Tandon Mr.A.G. ORAL ORDER 2 07-01-2022 Due to the third wave of COVID-19 Pandemic, the matter is being taken up by way of virtual Court proceeding. The matter has been listed under the heading “For Orders” under the orders of Hon’ble the Chief Justice. Learned counsel for the petitioner is directed to remove the defect(s), as pointed out by the office, within a period of four weeks after restoration of normalcy. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State through virtual mode. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in Muffasil P.S. Case No. 586 of 2020 registered under Sections 341, 323, 324, 353, 379 of the Indian Penal Code. The petitioner is alleged to have assaulted the electric Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47194 of 2021(2) dt.07-01-2022 metre reader by cable of iron on his head and also snatched Rs.

1000/- from his pocket. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that the petitioner has got no criminal antecedent. There is no allegation of tampering of witnesses alleged against the petitioner. The petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case. The inflormant has taken a loan of Rs. 25,000/- from the petitioner and the said loan was not being paid by the informant. Due to that, dispute had taken place and for the said reason, the present case has been instituted with a concocted allegation to falsely implicate the petitioner in the present case. On behalf of the State, it is submitted that the petitioner is named in the Complaint Case/F.I.R. It is necessary to indicate here that this Court while considering the prayer made in the present anticipatory bail application has taken note of the exponential rise in number of covid cases due to outbreak of third wave of Covid-19 pandemic.

Further this Court can also not lose sight of the fact that the condition of jails is not conducive and suitable to the present situation which has arisen due to the sudden rise in covid cases. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.47194 of 2021(2) dt.07-01-2022 case, the petitioner, above named, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on his personal bond to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, East Champaran in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 586 of 2020 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Once the normalcy is restored, the petitioner shall furnish bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each within a period of eight weeks to the satisfaction of the court concerned in connection with the aforesaid case. A.K.V.//- U T (Sudhir Singh, J)