PATNA, India, June 11 -- Patna High Court issued the following order on May 13:
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner seeks bail in anticipation of his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 324, 379, 307, 504, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent. It is next submitted that police after threadbare investigation came to a considered conclusion that petitioner is innocent thus submitted final form exonerating the petitioner of the allegation. It is next submitted that the learned Magistrate differing with the police report, took cognizance thus petitioner apprehends arrest.
4. It is next submitted that when one investigating agency after threadbare investigation came to a considered conclusion that petitioner is innocent whether it would be prudent for the Court to send the petitioner to jail based on an order of cognizance which came to be taken based on the same police report which exonerated the petitioner of the allegation.
5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the anticipatory bail application.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner, above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, is directed to be released on anticipatory bail on his furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Sherghati, Gaya in connection with Dumariya P. S. Case No.28 of 2021, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.
7. The application stands allowed.
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