Kumari Priti v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.11709 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-469 Year-2024 Thana- SARAIYA District- Muzaffarpur ====================================================== Kumari Priti D/O Late Ganesh Prasad Shahi, W/O Manoranjan Kumar R/o Village and P.O.- Chakna, P.S.- Saraiya, District- Muzaffarpur ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr.Krishna Kant Singh, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr.Ajay Mishra, A.P.P.
====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 03-09-2025 Heard learned counsel for the parties.
2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 467, 468, 471, 420 and 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code.
3. 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 verification of all educational certificates by the concerned department. Petitioner asked an information from the Director, SCERT, Assam, Kahilipara, Guwahati under RTI Act with respect to registration as student in the said College as well as correctness of marksheet/certificate of the petitioner, in pursuance thereto, the Director vide letter no. 693 dated 12.12.2024 given information
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11709 of 2025(9) dt.03-09-2025 2/3 to the petitioner whereby confirmed that petitioner was the student of Teacher Education Institute under SCERT, Assam and marksheet was issued by the College is correct. It is further submitted that submitted that the certificate and marksheet of the petitioner and other similarly situated persons have been verified by the Human Resource Department, after verification the College has sent the list of correct and false certificate of students in which petitioner's certificate was found true and such fact would be evident from the list i.e. part of F.I.R at page no.31 (37) in which petitioner name is mentioned asSl.No.155. Altogether 10 separate F.I.R was lodged against the similarly situated teachers including petitioner, out of which one teacher namely Arvind Kumar who has also passed from State Council of Education Research and Training (SCERT), Assam and still in service has been granted an anticipatory bail by this Court vide order dated 2.04.2025 passed in Cr.Misc. No. 16364 of 2025.
5. Learned counsel for the State does not controvert this fact.
6. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, this anticipatory bail is allowed. Let the above named petitioner, in the event of arrest/surrender before the court below
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.11709 of 2025(9) dt.03-09-2025 3/3 within a period of eight 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 the ACJM IV, Muzaffarpur in Saraiya Police Station Case No. 469 of 2024, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Shashi U T