Vibha Kumari v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.77350 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-174 Year-2024 Thana- BANJARIA District- East Champaran ====================================================== Vibha Kumari D/o Umesh Prasad Resident of Umesh Cycle Store Main Road, Motihari, P.S- Motihari (Town), District- East Champaran ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

1.

The State of Bihar Patna 2.

Superintendent of Police, Nigrani Investigation Bureau, Patna Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Shakil Ahmad Khan, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Ajay Mishra, APP For the Vigilence :

Mr. Arvind Kumar, Law Officer, Vigilence ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN ORAL ORDER 14-11-2024 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the Vigilance and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

2.

The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable u/s 467, 468, 471, 420, 120(B) of IPC.

3.

The allegation against the petitioner is that she has joined the service as a Panchayat Teacher on the basis of fake certificate.

4.

It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner is quite innocent and has committed no offence. She has been falsely implicated in this case due to dirty village politics. No such occurrence, in the manner as alleged, has ever

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.77350 of 2024(2) dt.14-11-2024 2/2 taken place. It is also submitted that the petitioner has been terminated from the service. This fact is mentioned in Para-8 of the bail application. It is further submitted that the certificate of the petitioner is not forged rather the enquiry agency has not properly enquired about the matter. Petitioner has no criminal antecedent as mentioned in para 3 of the bail application. 5.

Learned counsel for the Vigilance and learned APP for the State opposed the prayer for bail.

6.

Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case and the fact that the service of the petitioner was terminated, let the above named petitioner, be released on bail, in the event of her arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of six weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 25,000/- (Rupees Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned court below where the case is pending/Successor Court in connection with Banjariya P.S. Case No.174 of 2024, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. (Anjani Kumar Sharan, J) priyanka/- U T