Satyendra Prasad @ Teacher Satyendra Prasad v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31589 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-41 Year-2026 Thana- NAWADA District- Nawada ====================================================== Satyendra Prasad @ Teacher Satyendra Prasad S/o Chandeshwar Prasad Resident of Village - Bishanpur, Police Station - Govindpur, District - Nawada ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Nilendu Kumar Choudhary, Adv.

For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Brajendra Nath Pandey, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AJIT KUMAR ORAL ORDER 07-05-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Nawada Town P.S. Case No. 41 of 2026 for the offence punishable under sections 336(2), 337 229(1) of the BNS lodged on 08.01.2026 by the informant.

3. As per the prosecution case, the petitioner is an accused of making alteration in the admission register of the alleged victim in POCSO Case no. 47/23 arising out of Govindpur P.S. Case no. 116/23. During the evidence of the petitioner as P.W.7 in the above cited case an alteration was found in admission register page no. 94 entry no. 117 in the date of birth of victim. The petitioner had submitted to the concerned court that the change in date of birth was made without

2/4 permission from any superior authority and the change has not been communicated to any authority. Accordingly, on the direction of the learned court, an F.I.R was registered against the petitioner u/s 336(1), 337 and 229(1) of BNS.

4. The Learned counsel on behalf of petitioner submits that in view of Annexure P/2 issued by the Secretary, Department of Education, the APAAR ID, which was required to have been prepared by the School, was being carried out on the basis of the evidence produced by the parents in respect of the date of birth of the children in question. It is the case of the petitioner that on the basis of AADHAAR Card, the victim's date of birth was indicated in the APAAR ID, even assuming that there was certain changes, which is said to have occurred in preparation of APAAR ID, still the status of victim did not get changed as still the said victim was a minor and the reasons which this petitioner is said to have placed for consideration have not been gone into by the court concerned while considering the anticipatory bail of this petitioner.

5. Learned APP opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail and submits that the action of the petitioner smells a rat.

6. Considering the fact that the change in date of birth as per the petitioner is said to have been made on the basis of

3/4 date of birth recorded in AADHAAR and there being no change in the status of the victim, this Court is inclined to extend him the privilege of anticipatory bail.

7. Let the petitioner, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from the receipt of this order, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in connection with aforesaid PS Case, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS as well as the following conditions:- (i) one of the bailors should be the family member/relative of the petitioner(s) who shall provide official document to show his/her bona fide;

(ii) the petitioner(s) shall appear on each and every date before the Trial Court and failure to do so for two consecutive dates without plausible reason will entail cancellation of his/their bail bond by the Trial Court itself;

(iii) the petitioner(s) shall in no way try to induce or promise or threat the witnesses or tamper with the evidences, failing which the State shall be at liberty to take steps for cancellation of the bail bonds;

4/4 (iv) the petitioner(s) shall desist from committing any criminal offence again, failing which the State shall be at liberty to take steps for cancellation of his/their bail bonds.

(Ajit Kumar, J) perwez U T