Smt. Usha Prasad v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.46509 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-11 Year-2026 Thana- GANDHIMAIDAN District- Patna ====================================================== Smt. Usha Prasad W/o Shri Kamal Kishore Prasad R/o - House no. 111, Second Floor, In front of Park No. 2, Road No. 22, Shrikrishna Nagar, P.S - Buddha Colony, Town and District - Patna ... ... Petitioner
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner :
Mr. Bindeswari Singh, Adv.
For the Opposite Party :
Mr. Pushpa Sinha, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA ORAL ORDER 29-07-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.
2. The accused/petitioner is named in the FIR and apprehending her arrest in connection with Gandhi Maidan P.S. Case No.11 of 2026 registered under Sections 316(2), 318 (4) and 3(5) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 (in short 'BNS').
3. As per FIR, the accused persons including petitioner was running a private company M/s Washing Express Raundella Laundromat Pvt. Ltd., where informant alleged to invest Rs. 5.9 lakh but was cheated as no return was made to him. It is alleged that one Anand Kishore
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.46509 of 2026(2) dt.29-07-2026 2/3 invested Rs. 31 lakh, one Ranjeet Kumar sinha/Seema Kumari invested Rs. 26 lakh 40 thousand and one Firoj Ahmad invested Rs. 50 lakh
4. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is not the office bearer of the company, where informant made his investment along with other persons. It is submitted that as son-in-law is the director of the company, therefore out of oblique motive entire family members including this petitioner was implicated. It is submitted that in the same transactions, petitioner being mother-in-law implicated with 2 more criminal cases which was registered as Gandhi Maidan P.S Case No. 52 of 2026 and Patliputra P.S Case No. 68 of 2026.
5. Learned APP while opposing the prayer of bail submitted that petitioner was specifically alleged to act in connivance of other co-accused persons.
6. In view of aforesaid factual submissions and by taking note of fact as the matter is primarily related with monetary dispute arising out of admitted investment with
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.46509 of 2026(2) dt.29-07-2026 3/3 the company, where son-in-law of the petitioner was director, accordingly, petitioner above-named, who is a lady, is directed to be released on bail, in the event of her arrest or surrender in the court below within a period of four weeks, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Court of Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Patna, in connection with Gandhi Maidan P.S. Case No.11 of 2026, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS.
(Chandra Shekhar Jha, J.) Aniket/- U T