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2026 Supreme(Online)(Pat) 3656

PATNA HIGH COURT
PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH, J
Mukesh Rai @ Mukesh Kumar Rai – Appellant
Versus
The State of Bihar – Respondent
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.91821 of 2025



Advocates:
For the Appellants/Petitioners: Mr. Ranjeet Kumar
For the Respondents: Mr. Damodar Prasad Tiwary, APP

The absence of specific allegations against petitioners allows for bail under certain conditions, considering their clean antecedents.

Headnote:The court analyzed the applicable sections of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, in the context of an appeal for bail by multiple petitioners accused of disrupting public work (para 3). The court acknowledged the lack of specific allegations against the petitioners and their clean antecedent (para 4). The primary issue was whether the petitioners should be granted bail in light of their claims of innocence and general accusations (para 2). Consequently, the court decided that the petitioners would be enlarged on bail under specified conditions (final order).

CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER

2 20-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the State .

2. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 191 ( 2 ), 190, 126 ( 2 ), 115 ( 2 ), 324 ( 2 ), 132, 352, 351 ( 2 ) and 3 (5)

of BNS.

3 . As per F.I.R., informant alleged that even upon the instruction of informant and other officials not to intervene in public work , all the accused persons along with 10 – 13 others disrupted public work , pushed officials and also abused them.

4. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that petitioners are innocent and has committed no offence as alleged. Allegation is general and omnibus against these petitioners. No specific accusation is alleged against them. They have got no concern with the alleged occurrence . Petitioners claim clean antecedent.

5 . Learned counsel for the State oppose the bail petition .

6 Considering the aforesaid facts, clean antecedent of these petitioners and other circumstances of the case , in the event of arrest or surrender within eight weeks from today, let the petitioners, as named above, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Sarai P.S. Case No. 208 of 2025 , subject to the conditions laid down under section 482 ( 2 ) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita ( BNSS ) , 2023 .

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J)

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