Patna High Court – Orders
Dhananjay Patel @ Dhananjay @ Dhananjay … vs The State Of Bihar on 29 July, 2026
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.51606 of 2026
Arising Out of PS. Case No.-32 Year-2021 Thana- PAKRIDAYAL District- East Champaran
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Dhananjay Patel @ Dhananjay @ Dhananjay Kumar Son of Ram Ashish Rai
Resident of Village - Bhagwanpur Simra, P.S. - Paroo, District - Muzaffarpur.
... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar
... ... Opposite Party/s
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Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sitesh Kashyap, Advocate
For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Pramod Kumar Pandey, APP
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CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA
ORAL ORDER
2 29-07-2026
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 406/34 of
the Indian Penal Code.
3. The allegation in the First Information Report is
that the petitioner along with others, under conspiracy, stole and
sold the rice sent in truck.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the
petitioner is a transporter running a company and the allegation
is that the driver and the owner of the truck in which the
informant’s rice was to be transported did not come back and
the same was misappropriated. The allegations make it clear that
it was the driver and the owner who were sitting in the truck and
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the petitioner, being the transporter, has been made an accused
although he has no complicity in the said offence. Further, the
petitioner has no criminal antecedent.
5. Learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for
anticipatory bail on the basis of allegations made in the First
Information Report.
6. Taking into consideration the facts and
circumstances and considering the fact that the petitioner is a
transporter and was not present in the said vehicle, let the above
named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or
surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four
weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-
(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount
each to the satisfaction of the learned Court below where the
case is pending/successor Court in connection with Pakridayal
P.S. Case No. 32 of 2021, subject to the condition as laid down
under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C/ Section 482 (2) of the
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023.
(Soni Shrivastava, J)
anand/-
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