2026:CGHC:7640 NAFR HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR MCRC No. 793 of 2026 Karan Sahu @ Chhotu S/o Sant Ram Sahu Aged About 22 Years R/o Durgamandir, Kundrapara, Village Tifra, P.S. Sirgitti Distt. Bilaspur Chhattisgarh ... Applicant(s)

Digitally AKHILESH signed by KUMAR AKHILESH DEWANGANKUMAR DEWANGAN versus State Of Chhattisgarh Through S.H.O. Police Station Tarbaahar Distt.

Bilaspur Chhattisgarh ... Respondent(s)

For Applicant(s) : Mr. Nikhil Kumar Pandey, Advocate.

For Respondent(s) : Ms. Sameeksha Gupta, P.L.

Hon'ble Mr. Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice

Order on Board

11/02/2026

1. This is the first bail application filed under Section 483 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (for short ‘BNSS’) for grant of regular bail to the applicant who has been arrested in connection with Crime No. 360/2024 registered at Police Station Tarbaahar Distt. Bilaspur (C.G.) for the offence punishable under Sections 140, 119, 115(2), 3(5) of BNS.

2. Case of the prosecution, in brief, is that on 14.11.2024 at about

04:30 a.m., the complainant Manoj Kumar was proceeding from Bilaspur Railway Station towards Sirgitti. Near Bangla Yard, Tarbahar, the present applicants allegedly came on a motorcyc