IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. OF 2025 (@ Special Leave Petition (Crl.) No. 17668/2024)

KAPIL YADAV & ORS. ...APPELLANT(S)

VERSUS STATE OF BIHAR ….RESPONDENT(S)

O R D E R Leave granted.

This appeal challenges the order dated

18.09.2024 passed by the High Court of Judicature of Patna in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 36271 of 2024 rejecting the anticipatory bail application filed by the appellants herein.

Apprehending arrest in connection with crime registered pursuant to First Information Report No. 694 of 2023 dated 04.12.2023 lodged with Police Station Kawakole, District Nawada, Bihar in Signature Not Verifierd espect of offences punishable under Sections 341, NEETU SACHDEVA Date: 2025.04.25 Reason: 323, 307, 354, 379, 504, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (“IPC”), the appellants preferred the aforesaid application before the High Court seeking anticipatory bail in terms of Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 (“the Code” for short). The said application for anticipatory bail having been rejected vide impugned order dated 18.09.2024, the instant appeal has been preferred.

By order dated 20.12.2024, while issuing noti