Punam Kumari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.6391 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-567 Year-2023 Thana- NOORSARAI District- Nalanda ====================================================== Punam Kumari D/O Sri Ramswath Singh @ Ramswarath Singh Resident of Village- Matepur, P.O.- Kolawan, P.S.- Chandi, District- Nalanda ... ... Petitioner/s

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The State of Bihar 2.

Lal Mohammad S/o- Late Rahamtulla Police Inspector cum Enquiry Officer Vigilance INvestigation Bureau, Patna Division, Patna ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Bipin Bihari Singh, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Arvind Kumar, Law Officer, Vigilance with Mr. Paritosh Parimal, Adv.

Mr. Sanjay Kumar Tiwary, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02-04-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.P.P. and learned counsel appearing on behalf of Vigilance Department.

2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offence under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The petitioner is alleged to have obtained appointment, as Panchayat Teacher, on the basis of forged and fabricated document(s).

4. It is submitted on behalf of petitioner that petitioner was appointed, as Panchayat Teacher, after investigation of all her educational certificates by the concerned department, but later on, same has been declared as forged and

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6391 of 2025(6) dt.02-04-2025 2/2 fabricated without proper verification or giving any notice to the petitioner. Moreover, petitioner has already been terminated from service, vide Letter No. 239 dated 02.05.2024, issued by the Mukhiya of Gram Panchayat Raj Jagdishpur Tiwary, Noorsarai, District Nalanda, vide Annexure P/6 to the supplementary affidavit. Petitioner is lady and has got clean antecedent.

5. Learned counsel for the Vigilance Department vehemently opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail.

6. Considering the fact that petitioner has already been terminated from the service and she has got clean antecedent, let the above named petitioner, in the event of her arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Biharsharif, Nalanda in connection with Noorsarai P.S. Case No. 567 of 2023, subject to condition as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) anay U T