Ranjan Kumar v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.25137 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-28 Year-2019 Thana- AIRPORT District- Patna ====================================================== Ranjan Kumar S/O Shivnarayan Prasad R/O Vill.-- Navin Nagar, Nawada, P.S. - Nawada, Dist-Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Deepak Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Ram Anurag Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE JUSTICE SMT. SONI SHRIVASTAVA ORAL ORDER 30-04-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 of the Indian Penal Code.

3. Allegation against the petitioner is that he with the help of other accomplices, hatched a conspiracy and tried to get a job by committing fraud.

4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that although the FIR is of the year 2019, he had no knowledge about his name having featured in the said FIR and he came to know only after notice was issued on 29.08.2025, whereafter he approached the Court for anticipatory bail. It has also been submitted that the petitioner does not have any criminal antecedent and he undertakes to cooperate with the investigation, if not concluded and has also submitted that the non-matching of the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.25137 of 2026(2) dt.30-04-2026 2/2 thumb impression may also be result of technical glitch. It is further submitted that the similarly situated co-accused has already been granted bail by a coordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 26.02.2026 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 12931 of 2026.

5. However, learned APP for the State opposes the grant of anticipatory bail.

6. Taking into consideration the facts and circumstances and also considering that the petitioner has no criminal antecedent and similarly situated co-accused has already been granted bail, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five 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 Hawai Adda Police Station Case No. 28 of 2019, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C./482 (2) of the B.N.S.S.

(Soni Shrivastava, J) devendra/- U T