CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD and HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRAVEEN KUMAR ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJEEV RANJAN PRASAD)

5 10-02-2026 Re. I.A. No. 01 of 2025 Heard S.K. Lal, learned Senior Counsel for the appellant and Mr. Parmeshwar Mehta, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State on this interlocutory application seeking suspension of sentence and release of the appellant on bail during pendency of the appeal.

2. Lower court records have been placed before this Court.

3. The appellant has been convicted vide judgment dated 02.12.2024 and sentenced vide order dated 06.12.2024 in Sessions Trial No. 969 of 2019 arising out of Bakhtiyarpur P.S.

Case No. 13 of 2019 passed by learned District and Additional Sessions Judge-V^th, Barh, for the offence punishable under Sections 396 of the Indian Penal Code (in short ‘I.P.C.’) and Section 25(1-B)a, 26 and 27 of Arms Act . He has been ordered to undergo rigorous imprisonment for life and a fine of Rs. 25,000/- for the offence under Section 396 of the I.P.C. and in default of payment of fine, he shall further undergo rigorous imprisonment for three months. For the sake of brevity, the sentences awarded un