Rajendra Nath v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.46773 of 2022 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-167 Year-2022 Thana- RAGHOPUR District- Vaishali ====================================================== Rajendra Nath S/O Ganesh Prasad Resident Of Village - Kashi Bazar, Ps Bhagwan Bazar, District Saran At Chapra, Presently Working as Accountant, Referral Hospital Mohanpur, PS Raghopur, District - Vaishali. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Sanat Kumar Mishra For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Md. Fahimuddin ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 08-12-2022 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. Petitioner apprehends arrest in registered for the offence punishable under Sections 420, 120B and other allied sections of the Indian Penal Code.

As per prosecution case, in spite of reminders petitioner did not produce the account register, bank pass-book, laptop before the informant.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has falsely been implicated in the present case. On 30.04.2022 petitioner was going to submit the relevant documents before the District Health Committee and when he arrived near Bahrampur and Jethuli Ghat, some miscreants snatched away the bag of the petitioner for which a

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.46773 of 2022(2) dt.08-12-2022 2/2 petition has been filed before the SHO on 30.04.2022 and as such, petitioner is not responsible for the missing of aforesaid documents because the same has been snatched away by the miscreants. Petitioner has got clean antecedent. Learned counsel for the State opposes the prayer for bail application submitting that petitioner was the custodian of the documents in question and it was his responsibility to take care of the same. No FIR has been lodged about the missing of the documents by the petitioner till date.

Considering the aforesaid facts, prayer for bail of the petitioner is refused with direction to surrender and seek regular bail which would be considered and disposed of on its own merit without prejudice.

(Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) Navya/- U T