IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.86333 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-19 Year-2024 Thana- Cyber P.S. District- West Champaran ====================================================== Rohit Tiwari S/O Brij Kishore Tiwari Resident of village - Pandey Tola,P.S- Nautan,Dist- West Champran ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Sharad Kumar Verma, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Nawal Kishore Pd., A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE ANIL KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 4 01-04-2026 Heard learned counsel for the parties concerned. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Bettiah Cyber P.S. Case No. 19 of 2024 registered for the offence under Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66(c)/66(d) of the Information Technology Act, 2000. 3. The prosecution case in brief is that on 25.06.2024 at about 11:30 a:m, the S.H.O. of Cyber Crime Police Station, Bettiah received secret information that one co-accused Sandeep Kumar Pal along with some other persons are engaged in Cyber fraud and has illegally opened bank accounts in different banks and engaged in illegal transaction of money in these accounts. The police Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.86333 of 2025(4) dt.01-04-2026 2/4 proceeded for verification and when police arrived at the house of Sandeep Kumar Pal he tried to flee away but he was apprehended and disclosed that he along with other co- accused persons make, Bank account, UPI ID, Wallet Id etc. from different whatsapp numbers and was paid share in the money, which is received by Cyber fraud. He further disclosed that he has opened several bank accounts IDs, UPI IDs and many transactions are being done through electronic mobile and he disclosed the name of other co- accused including this petitioner as his associates. It is further alleged that mobile number and several bank accounts, passbooks, ATM Cards were seized from his possession and on the basis of disclosure statement of Sandeep Kumar Pal, the police raided in the house of Vijay Kumar and he was also apprehended and from his possession two mobile phones, cheque book of different banks were found, he also disclosed the name of his companion, accordingly police raided at the house of Naveen Kumar he was also apprehended and from his possession a mobile, passbook of different bank account, ATM Cards of different bank accounts were recovered. Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.86333 of 2025(4) dt.01-04-2026 3/4 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is innocent and has been falsely implicated in this case on the basis of confessional statement of the arrested co-accused Sandeep Kumar. He further submits that the petitioner is a bona fide person and was not engaged in the alleged Cyber crime relating to cheating and forgery along with other co-accused persons, who are strangers to him. The petitioner has not been arrested by the police on spot nor any incriminating article has been recovered from conscious possession of the petitioner and petitioner is having no criminal antecedent. 5. I have heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the materials on record. The apprehended persons has disclosed that they, including the petitioner, operate an organized gang for committing cyber crime. The police seized numerous cell phones, passbooks, ATM Cards from the co-accused persons and the allegation against the petitioner is that he along with others was committing Cyber fraud by opening fake bank accounts/transaction/ UPI IDs and the fact that all accused persons appears to have formed a gang to defraud the innocent public and the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.86333 of 2025(4) dt.01-04-2026 4/4 phishing/cyber fraud is rampant in the area where the attackers try to trick individuals into providing user names, password and other details and are indulged in e-mail phishing, voice phishing, SMS phishing etc. and the case is still under investigation, for which, custodial interrogation of the petitioner may be required, I am not inclined to grant the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, the prayer for bail is rejected. Siwani/- (Anil Kumar Sinha, J) U T