Kaushalya Devi @ Koshalya Devi v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.84983 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-207 Year-2025 Thana- BAHERI District- Darbhanga ====================================================== Kaushalya Devi @ Koshalya Devi Son of Bhogi Singh @ Bhogi Sah Resident of Village - Chakka, Police Station - Baheri, District - Darbhanga. ... ... Petitioner/s

Versus

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

For the Petitioner/s :

Mr. Nilendu Kumar Choudhary, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s :

Mr. Parmeshwar Mehta, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 10-02-2026

1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned APP for the State.

2. The petitioner apprehends her arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 316(5), 318(4), 338 and 3(5) of the BNS.

3. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and is a woman and the informant alleges that accused persons including the petitioner withdrew money from the Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojna by scanning the account number of genuine beneficiaries and also tampered with the records.

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 the petitioner has not

Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.84983 of 2025(2) dt.10-02-2026 2/2 withdrawn any money rather the same was credited in her account on account of mistake committed by the Awas Sahayak and the moment Awas Sahayak informed the peititoner about the mistake, the money was credited in the account of the State Nodal Bank, as would manifest from Annexure-P/2 to the anticipatory bail application.

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, let the petitioner above-named, in the event of her arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing 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 Baheri P.S. Case No. 207 of 2025, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 482(2) of the BNSS. (Satyavrat Verma, J) Rishabh/- U T