Ranjana Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.19916 of 2023 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-150 Year-2014 Thana- KUMAR KHAND District- Madhepura ====================================================== 1.

Ranjana Devi, Wife Of Pankaj Kumar R/O Village- Khurda, P.S.- Kumarkhand, District- Madhepura 2.

Renu Kumari @ Renu Devi, Wife Of Vimal Kishore Thakur R/O VillageKhurda, P.S.- Kumarkhand, District- Madhepura 3.

Pinki Praveen, Wife Of Md. Irsad Ansari @ Md. Irshad R/O Village- Israine Khurd, Tola- Jaduapatti, P.S.- Kumarkhand, District- Madhepura ... ... Petitioner/S

Versus

The State Of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Nand Kumar Sagar- Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ajay Mishra- A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 01-08-2023

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioners seek bail in anticipation of their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 406, 409, 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 472 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and are women and the informant alleges that petitioners, being Mukhiya, Members of Education Committee and Panchayat Secretary, appointed their people as Teachers.

4. The learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners have been falsely implicated in the present case. It is next submitted that the allegation is general and omnibus. It is

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.19916 of 2023(3) dt.01-08-2023 2/2 further submitted that the selection process commenced and after adopting all the processes, the appointments were made. It is next submitted that F.I.R. came to be instituted based on an inquiry conducted behind the back of the petitioners and if an opportunity would have been given to the petitioners to explain their side of the case, perhaps the present F.I.R. would not have been instituted.

5. Learned A.P.P. opposes the bail application.

6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners, above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks, are directed to be released on bail on their furnishing bail-bonds in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M.-II, Madhepura in connection with Kumarkhand P. S. Case No.150 of 2014, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) vikash/- U T