Balendra Prasad Sinha @ Balendra Kumar Sinha v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.45008 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-430 Year-2017 Thana- SONEPUR District- Saran ====================================================== Balendra Prasad Sinha @ Balendra Kumar Sinha S/o Ambika Singh Resident of Village - Chandwara, P S- Kartahan District Vaishali ... ... Petitioner/s
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The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner :
Mr. Rajesh Ranjan Kumar, Advocate For the State :
Mr. Uday Pratap Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 29-07-2024 Heard learned counsels for the parties.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 409 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. As per prosecution case, this petitioner, along with other accused persons named in the F.I.R., being the In-charge Principal of the College in question, did not submit the letters dispatch book, teachers attendance register and resolution book of the governing body.
4. It is submitted by learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner that all the books and registers have already been handed over by this petitioner much prior to his superannuation. It is further submitted that F.I.R. has been lodged after delay of one year. There is no allegation of defalcation against this petitioner. Petitioner claims clean
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45008 of 2024(2) dt.29-07-2024 2/2 antecedents.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State has opposed the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner.
6. Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances, nature of accusation and clean antecedents of the petitioner, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner is allowed.
7. Accordingly, in the event of arrest/surrender within a period of six weeks from today, let the above named petitioner be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, I, Saran at Chapra, in connection with Sonepur P.S. Case No. 430 of 2017, subject to condition as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) shashank/- U T