Manish Singh @ Manish Kumar Singh v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.72555 of 2019 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-238 Year-2019 Thana- ARA MUFFSIL District- Bhojpur ====================================================== MANISH SINGH @ MANISH KUMAR SINGH S/o- Sudeshwar Singh Resident of Village- Pathanpur, P.S.- Ara Muffasil, District- Bhojpur, Ara. ... ... Petitioner.

Versus

The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party.

====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner :

Mr. Rajiva Ranjan, Advocate.

For the State :

Mr. Manoj Kumar, A.P.P.

For the Informant :

Mr. Ravindra Kumar, Advocate.

Mr. Aman Prateek, Advocate.

====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE RAJENDRA KUMAR MISHRA ORAL ORDER 04-02-2020 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. for the State as also the learned counsel for the informant The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Ara Muffasil P.S. Case No.238 of 2019 registered under Sections 420, 406 and 379 of the Indian Penal Code. The accusation is that there was joint account of the informant Asha Devi and her husband Godhan Yadav in Madhya Gramin Bank, Branch-Bibiganj. The compensation of Rs.12,60,055/- awarded in favour of the informant was credited in their joint account. Thereafter, Manish Kumar Singh (petitioner) accompanied the informant at Madhya Bihar

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72555 of 2019(4) dt.04-02-2020 2/3 Gramin Bank and introduced her to a person there, saying that she wants to withdraw the money. Thereafter, the petitioner and one Hari Babu alias Dronacharya obtained the signature of the husband of the informant on a paper saying that money would be handed over to him at the house. Thereafter, the petitioner and Hari Babu alias Dronacharya started to give money to the informant, sometime as Rs.1000/- and sometime as Rs.2000/-. Later on, the informant came to know that they withdrew the money of Rs.9,00,000/- from her joint account. When the informant approached the Bank, then she came to know that the amount of her joint account was transferred in the account of Dronacharya Dubey alias Haribabu.

Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that it would appear from the F.I.R. and the case diary that the money from the joint account of the informant was transferred in the account of the co-accused Dronacharya Dubey alias Haribabu. The petitioner being the Up-Sarpanch of the village has falsely been implicated in this case with an ulterior motive. The petitioner has no criminal antecedent.

Having considered the facts and the circumstances of the case, let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender by him within six weeks from today, be

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.72555 of 2019(4) dt.04-02-2020 3/3 enlarged on bail on his furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara, in connection with Ara Muffasil P.S. Case No.238 of 2019, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C.

(Rajendra Kumar Mishra, J) P.S./- U