Pratima Kumari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.16055 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-444 Year-2021 Thana- VAISHALI District- Vaishali ====================================================== Pratima Kumari D/o- Surendra Prasad Sinha R/o Village - Belwar, P.S. Vaisahli, (Belsar OP) Dist. Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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The State of Bihar 2.

The Vigilance, Govt. of Bihar, Patna ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shashi Bhushan Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ajay Mishra, A.P.P.

For the Vigilance :

Mr. Arvind Kumar, Spl.P.P.

Mr. Paritosh Parimal, Advocate ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 16-04-2025

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned A.P.P. for the State and learned Special P.P. for the Vigilance.

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

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that petitioner secured her appointment as a teacher based on forged and fabricated certificate.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case based on an inquiry conducted behind her back. It is further submitted that had an opportunity been given to the petitioner to explain

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.16055 of 2025(2) dt.16-04-2025 2/2 her side of the case perhaps the instant FIR would not have been instituted. It is next submitted that services of the petitioner stand terminated on the ground that she had secured appointment based on forged and fabricated certificate but then the order of termination has been assailed before this Court in C.W.J.C. No. 12316 of 2024.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State and learned Special P.P. for the Vigilance vehemently opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, let the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Vaishali (Belsar OP) P.S. Case No. 444 of 2021, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Kundan/- U T