Nawneet Kumar @ Naveen Kumar v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31087 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1227 Year-2023 Thana- KHAGARIA District- Khagaria ====================================================== Nawneet Kumar @ Naveen Kumar, S/o Shree Kishore, R/o Vill.- Vishnupur, Bishunpur, P.S.- Begusarai, Distt.- Begusarai at present R/o District Registry Office, P.S.- Near Chitragupt Nagar Thana, Distt.- Khagaria. ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ashish Giri, Sr. Adv.
Mr. Sumit Kumar Jha, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Prem Kumar Jha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE HARISH KUMAR ORAL ORDER 21-05-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Khagaria P.S. Case No. 1227 of 2023 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 427/34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. Allegedly, all the FIR named accused persons including the petitioner in collusion with each other got the ancestral land of the informant registered by preparing a false document out of financial greed and conspiracy.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner taking this Court through the FIR has contended that the petitioner is none else but the Sub-Registrar of the district Khagaria Sadar and there is
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31087 of 2025(2) dt.21-05-2025 2/3 no specific allegation of any conspiracy and collusion with the accused persons. The petitioner being the Sub-Registrar is duly authorized under the law to verify the identity of a person, who produced deed for registration. The genuineness of the right and title over the land of a person is not within the domain of the petitioner. During the course of investigation, the investigating officer has not found any complicity of the petitioner leading to submission of the final form, showing the petitioner as innocent. However, differing with the final report, the learned jurisdictional court has taken cognizance for the offences alleged in the FIR; hence, the present application for anticipatory bail.
Various other submissions have been made on behalf of the petitioner that even if the allegation leveled in the FIR is taken to be true, no offence is made out. Moreover, the entire case is predominantly civil in nature and has only been given a colour of criminal case(s) in order to mount pressure and wreak vengeance. The petitioner is a Government servant having fair antecedent and he undertakes that he will fully cooperate in the proceedings of the Court.
5. On the other hand, learned counsel for the State opposed the bail application.
6. Regard being had to the submissions made on
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.31087 of 2025(2) dt.21-05-2025 3/3 behalf of the parties and considering the nature of allegation and the fact that the petitioner is a Government servant having fair antecedent and the police has not found any complicity of the petitioner in the crime, 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. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned C.J.M., Khagaria in connection with Khagaria P.S. Case No. 1227 of 2023, subject to the condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS, with further condition that one of the bailors shall be the own/close family members of the petitioner.
(Harish Kumar, J) rohit/- U T