Chandeshwar Ray @ Chandeshwar Ram v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.21010 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-46 Year-2016 Thana- EKANGARSARAI District- Nalanda ====================================================== Chandeshwar Ray @ Chandeshwar Ram Son of Bahadur Ram Resident of - 23 Math Kol, Pathagarh Lane, P.S.- Dumdum, District - Kolkata, West Bengal ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Surya Swetabh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Brajendra Nath Pandey ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA PRAKASH SINGH ORAL ORDER 31-10-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Ekangarsarai P.S. Case No. 46 of 2016 dated 12.03.2016 registered for the offence punishable u/ss 420, 467, 468, 471/120B of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3 of the Bihar Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Finance Establishment) Act.

3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner and the co-accused persons are alleged to have allured several persons to deposit the amount with the aforesaid company and subsequently, the petitioner and the Directors of the aforesaid company closed the local office and got disappeared.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.21010 of 2025(5) dt.31-10-2025 2/2

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner has submitted that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in this case. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent as stated in para 3 of the bail petition. The other co-accused person has already been granted anticipatory bail by this court vide order dated 03.01.2024 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 77065 of 2023. The petitioner is only an agent of the aforesaid company.

5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has vehemently opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.

6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner, in the event of his arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rupees twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court concerned, Patna in connection with Ekangarsarai P.S. Case No. 46 of 2016, subject to conditions as laid down under section 482(2) of the BNSS.

7. The application stands allowed.

(Chandra Prakash Singh, J) guddukr/- U T