Sunita Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.39906 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-243 Year-2023 Thana- KOTWA District- East Champaran ====================================================== 1.

Sunita Devi W/O Shivpujan Das Resident of Village- Machchargavan, P.S.- Kotwa, District- East Champaran.

2.

Keshav Lal Das S/O Dular Chand Das Resident of Village- Machchargavan, P.S.- Kotwa, District- East Champaran.

... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Dhurendra Kumar For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Parmeshwar Mehta ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 30-06-2026 1.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2.

The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 406, 409, 420 and 34 of the IPC.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioners are persons with clean antecedent and petitioner no. 1 is a woman and the informant alleges that Ward Implementation and Management Committee of Ward No. 10 did not complete the entire work under Chief Minister Nal-Jal Yojna, as such for realisation of the amount, a certificate case has been instituted on 15-11-2022. 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners have been falsely implicated in the instant case by the

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.39906 of 2026(2) dt.30-06-2026 2/2 informant. It is next submitted that the contractor, who was awarded the work, was given a cheque of Rs. 10 lakh 99 thousand, but then he did not complete the work for which a complaint case has been instituted. It is further submitted that even presuming what has been alleged is true without admitting then a certificate case has been instituted against the petitioners for realising the amount of Rs. 11 lakh. It is thus submitted that if the certificate case does not succeed, whether it would be prudent for the court to send the petitioners to jail.

5.

Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners.

6.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned trial court where the case is pending/successor court in connection with Kotwa P.S. Case No. 243 of 2023, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T