Prof. Jawahar Lal Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.69889 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-351 Year-2015 Thana- BAKHTIYARPUR District- Patna ====================================================== 1.

Prof. Jawahar Lal Singh S/o Late Shinandan Singh R/o Mato Shree, Mirjapur, Nohta, P.S.- Fatwa, Distt.- Patna 2.

Pahnindra Prasad S/o Motilal Mandal R/o vill - Nayatola, Madhopur, Bakhtiyarpur, P.S.- Bakhtiyarpur, Distt.- Patna ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr.Chandra Bhushan Singh For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr.Zainul Abedin ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 13-10-2025 1.

Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State.

2.

The petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 409 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code.

3.

Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that informant alleges that he took charge of Principal of Ram Lakhan Singh Yadav on 19-1-2015 and after taking over charge, he came to know that an amount of Rs. 49,11,649/- has been withdrawn from four SBI accounts of the college by petitioner and previous In-charge Principal, Phanindara Prasad, without his permission.

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69889 of 2025(2) dt.13-10-2025 2/3 4.

Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioners have been falsely implicated in the instant case by the informant. It is next submitted that police after threadbare investigation came to a considered conclusion that petitioners are innocent, thus submitted final form exonerating the petitioners of the allegation as alleged in the FIR, but then the learned trial court differing with the police report took cognizance by an order dated 2-5-2025, hence petitioners apprehend their arrest. It is further submitted that when one investigating agency after threadbare investigation came to a considered conclusion that petitioners are innocent whether it would be prudent for the Court to send the petitioners to jail based on an order of cognizance which came to be taken based on the same police report which exonerated the petitioners of the allegations.

5.

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

6.

Considering the submissions made by the learned counsel for the petitioners, the petitioners above-named, in the event of their 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/-

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.69889 of 2025(2) dt.13-10-2025 3/3 (Rupees Ten Thousand) each 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 Baktiyarpur P.S. Case No. 351 of 2015 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482 (2) of the BNSS. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Sumit/- U T