CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER

6 22-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the parties.

2. Petitioners apprehend arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under sections 302/201/34 of the Indian Penal Code .

3. As per prosecution case, all the FIR named accused persons including these petitioners killed informant’s sister by brutally assaulting her with lathi, danda and threw the dead body in the forest near Pakva river. It is further alleged that when the informant went to the house of his sister, he found blood trail in front of the house and accused persons had fled away from their house.

4. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that these petitioners are innocent and have falsely been implicated in this case on the basis of suspicion. From perusal of the FIR, it is evident that informant is not an eye witness to the occurrence. As a matter of fact, petitioners are close agnates of deceased and there is land dispute between the parties. Police after investigation submitted final form against the petitioners but the Court below differing with the same took cognizance of the offence. Some of the similarly situated accused persons, namely,