You “bit off his ear and ate it”, the Supreme Court on Wednesday pointed out to the accused as it rejected his anticipatory bail petition in the case.
Jharkhand High Court, while denying anticipatory bail, had said that as per the police report, the victim had multiple serious cut wounds on his head and face.
The accused called himself a victim.
To this the court asked, “Do you believe that there was a fight?”
What to do with the ear? How to get his ear back?” A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran was hearing a petition challenging the February 2026 order of the Jharkhand High Court, which had refused to grant anticipatory bail to Rajeev Ranjan Kumar in the case of violent clashes on the night of Janmashtmi in Ranchi.
“You first took out the gun, then grabbed his ear and bit off the entire ear and you want anticipatory bail?” the court commented. When the lawyer of the accused said that the allegation of taking out the gun was false, the court said, “Let’s leave the issue of the gun.
