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2026 Supreme(Online)(Pat) 3190

PATNA HIGH COURT
KHATIM REZA, J
Gopal Kumar – Appellant
Versus
The State of Bihar – Respondent
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.70344 of 2025|PS. Case No.-64 Year-2025



Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners:Mr. Baleshwar Kamat|For the Respondents: Mr. Jharkhandi Upadhyay, APP

Bail is granted under the Arms Act with conditions to ensure court compliance and prevent misuse.

Headnote:The petitioner seeks bail under the Arms Act, asserting innocence and highlighting co-accused bail precedents. The court considers the submission and grants bail under specified conditions to ensure compliance with trial requirements. Resulting in the district court being instructed to enforce conditions for the bail process.

CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA ORAL ORDER

4 21-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2. The petitioner seeks bail in connection with Jhanjharpur R.S. P.S. Case No. 64 of 2025 dated 03.07.2025, instituted for the offence punishable under Sections 25(1-b)a, 26, 35 of the Arms Act .

3. The allegation is of recovery of one live cartridge and a mobile phone of Samsung Company from the possession of the petitioner.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and he has been falsely implicated in this case. It is further submitted that nothing has been recovered from the conscious possession of the petitioner. It is next submitted that similarly situated co-accused person namely, Saddam Khan from whose possession one live cartridge and a mobile phone of Samsung Company was recovered has been granted bail vide order dated 24.12.2025 passed by a Co- ordinate Bench of this Court in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 74776 of 2025. Lastly, it has been submitted that the petitioner is in custody since 03.07.2025, having one criminal case against him and charge-sheet has been submitted in the case.

5. Learned A.P.P. has opposed the prayer for bail of the petitioner.

6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, let the petitioner be released on bail upon furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M., Ist, Jhanjharpur, District- Madhubani in Jhanjharpur R.S. P.S. Case No. 64 of

2025, subject to the following conditions:-

1. Petitioner shall co-operate in the trial and shall be properly represented on each and every date fixed by the Court and on his absence on two consecutive dates without sufficient reason, his bail bond shall be cancelled by the Court below.

2. One of the bailors will be his own blood relation, preferably father, mother, brother, sister and or his wife.

3. The bailor shall also state on affidavit that he will inform the court concerned if the petitioner is made accused in any other case of similar nature after his release in the present case and thereafter the court below will be at liberty to initiate the proceeding for cancellation of bail on ground of misuse.

4. If the petitioner tampers with the evidence or the witnesses, in that case, the prosecution will be at liberty to move for cancellation of bail.

5. The petitioner within two weeks of his release from custody shall appear before the S.H.O. of his local area alongwith a copy of this order and shall appear every fortnightly to mark his attendance till the framing of charge in this case.

(Khatim Reza, J)

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