Sita Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.33547 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-329 Year-2021 Thana- GORAUL District- Vaishali ====================================================== SITA DEVI W/o Chandan Kumar Rai Resident of Village - Basti Sarsikan , P.O.- Kishunpur Telaur, P.s.- Goraul, Distt.- Vaishali at Hajipur. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

THE STATE OF BIHAR ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Anish Chandra, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Parmeshwar Mehta, A.P.P.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 25-11-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the informant and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 409, 420 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and the informant alleges that Rs. 14,00,000/- was transferred in the account of Prabandhan Samiti of Ward No. 4 of the Gram Panchayat under "Chief Minister Seven Point Plan", further despite reminder, work has not been done and the money has been misappropriated. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner has been falsely implicated in the present case, it is next submitted that petitioner is the Chairman of the Ward Committee and from perusal of Annexure-2, it would manifest that work worth Rs. 3,80,277/- was done and further an amount of Rs. 4,60,000/- was

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.33547 of 2022(2) dt.25-11-2022 2/2 given by cheque to the Panchayat Secretary for getting the material but the same was not supplied and that money is with him and for rest of the money, the material has already been bought and the work is going on.

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

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner, the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) 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 Goraul P.S. Case No. 329 of 2021 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C.

Further, in the event, after investigation the police submits charge-sheet against the petitioner then the present anticipatory bail order shall come to an end.

(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T