Vikash Kumar @ Vikash Kumar Singh @ Vikas Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.69779 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-135 Year-2019 Thana- SISWAN District- Siwan ====================================================== Vikash Kumar @ Vikash Kumar Singh @ Vikas Kumar Singh S/O Suryadev Singh Village- Gangpur Siswan, P.S.- Siswan, Distt.- Siwan ... ... Petitioner/s
Versus
The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s :
Mr. Ashok Singh, Adv.
For the Opposite Party/s :
Mr. Parmeshwar Mehta, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 03-11-2025
1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State.
2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 406, 409, 420 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.
3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that Punam Devi, who was Secretary of the Ward, had issued five blank cheques in favour of Sanjay Kumar who got
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69779 of 2025(3) dt.03-11-2025 2/3 the same encashed in the account of the petitioner, as such, the accused persons in connivance misappropriated an amount of Rs. 3 Lakhs.
4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that Punam Devi had approached this Court seeking anticipatory bail by filing Criminal Miscellaneous No. 73981 of 2022 and the same was allowed by an order dated 29.04.2023 by a learned Co-ordinate Bench. It is next submitted that no doubt the amount was encashed in the account of the petitioner, but then the amount was taken by Punam Devi and Sanjay Singh. It is also submitted that the work has been completed and the petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation to prove his innocence.
5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner.
6. Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioner and taking into consideration the order dated 29.04.2023 in Criminal Miscellaneous No. 73981 of 2022, the petitioner above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned trial court within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing
Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69779 of 2025(3) dt.03-11-2025 3/3 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 Siswan P.S. Case No. 135 of 2019 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of BNSS.
7. Accordingly, the instant anticipatory bail application is allowed.
(Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T