JUDGEMENT
O.K.Sinha, J. -
(1.) Both the anticipatory
bail applications are being taken together filed
by different sets of petitioners arising out of
common cause of action in respect of
Complaint Case No. 339/2003 pending in the
Court of C.J.M., Koderma.
The prosecution story in brief is that a
piece of land measuring 0 45 acre of given
plot number and Khata number was purchased
by the complainant Dr. Manoj Bhadani against
registered sale deed who later on constructed
boundary wall over the said land and had also
installed an iron gate on the cost of Rs. 9,000.
The complainant had also constructed a wall
with its roof covered by corrugated sheets which
cost him Rs. 1,50,000/-. He had engaged a
guard for the care and protection of the
properties. On 27.8.2003 at about 11 a.m.
the informant pursuant to the information
received went to the place of occurrence with
the witnesses and found that the petitioners
along with others had been removing iron gate
which was installed by the complainant and
his brother. When the action of the petitioners
was opposed by the complainant it is alleged
that the petitioner Sudhir Kumar Bhadani took
out a pistol and fired upon the witness Ajit
Kumar Bhadani but without injury. In the same
sequence after terrorizing the complainant and
his witnesses, the petitioners removed the iron
gate put it on the pull cart and took it away
with them. In this manner the complainant sustained a heavy monetary loss.
They had also removed building materials including the iron
rods and cement. The said complaint was
permitted to be withdrawn on the petition of
the complainant Manoj Bhadani disclosing the
reason that at the time of lodging the complaint
he was mentally disturbed on account of occurrence
which took place on 27.8.2003 and therefore he could
not give the detail description of the occurrence to his lawyer for the
institution of complaint. Subsequently the
complainant filed a different complaint case
which was numbered as 339 by giving a
detailed description with the specific attribution
of the petitioners of both the anticipatory bail
petitions. Besides, narrating allegation of
removal of iron gate as well as the building
materials against the petitioners the complainant
alleged in the subsequent complaint
petition that the petitioners, forming an
unlawful assembly, armed with deadly weapons
like gun, revolver etc. removed the building
materials on at truck. It was further alleged that
the petitioners Santosh Bhadani snatched a
chain made of gold from the brother of the
complainant Ajit Kumar Bhadani worth Rs.
25.000/-. The another petitioner Pravin
Bhadani @ Bhulu removed the golden ring,
worth Rs. 10,000/- from the finger of Ajit
Kumar Bhadani and the another petitioner
Krishna Mohan Bhadani @ Tuntun removed
Rs. 10,000/- from the pocket of the same
victim Ajit Kumar Bhadani. It was further
alleged that the other petitioners Sudhir Kumar
Bhadani and Ravi Bhadani started strangulating
Ajit Kumar Bhadani and the latter any how
removed himself from the clutches of the
assailants and the petitioner Sudhir Kumar
Bhadani fired from his pistols but since Ajit
Kumar Bhadani fell down, he could not sustain
injury from the shot fired by the petitioner
Sudhir Kumar Bhadani.
(2.) The learned Counsel for the petitioners
pointed out that after suppressing the material
fact that a Complaint Case No. 332/2003 was
earlier filed by the complainant which was
withdrawn the subsequent Complaint Case No.
339/2003 was brought about on false and
frivolous allegations after mixing more colour
and the petitioners have genuine grievance of
their being arrested, since the cognizance of
the offence after due enquiry has been taken
under sections 148, 323, 392, 427 and 379,
I.P.C. by the C.J.M. Koderma.
(3.) Advancing his argument learned
Counsel submitted that the lands referred to in
the complaint petition is in fact the property
of C.H. Private Ltd. Company registered under
the Companies Act and no individual shareholder
of the Company has any right to dispose
of any property of the company except the
decision taken by the Board of Directors. There
are series of litigation peding between the coshare-holders
and Directors of the company with regard to landed property and therefore,
the allegation did not fall within the ambit of
criminal liability rather within the purview of
civil dispute. The petitioners are well reputed
businessmen who command respect in the
society, not at all concerned with the alleged
occurrence which can well be inferred from the
first complaint filed by the complainant without
any attribution against the petitioners and that
the allegation of firing shot in the first complaint
petition against the petitioner Sudhir Kumar
Bhadani was false and for such reason the local
police declined to institute a case observing that
the dispute was of a civil nature. The Court
may find that the substantial development of
facts have been made in the subsequent
complaint petition which was lacking in the
earlier one. Learned Counsel on behalf of the
complainant opposed the anticipatory bail of
the petitioners of both the anticipatory bail
applications.;
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