Page No.# 1/3 GAHC010189672025 2025:GAU-AS:11731 THE GAUHATI HIGH COURT (HIGH COURT OF ASSAM, NAGALAND, MIZORAM AND ARUNACHAL PRADESH) Case No. : AB/2041/2025 SAINUL HOQUE SON OF MONIRUDDIN AHMED R/O VILL- DEKAR GAON, P.O. BARKOLA P.S. MANGALDAI, DIST. DARRANG, ASSAM, PIN-782144 VERSUS THE STATE OF ASSAM REP. BY THE PP, ASSAM Advocate for the Petitioner : I HOQUE, MS. H G DAS Advocate for the Respondent : PP, ASSAM, BEFORE HONOURABLE MRS. JUSTICE SHAMIMA JAHAN ORDER 01.09.2025 Heard Mr. I. Hoque, learned counsel for the petitioner. Also heard Mr. P. Borthakur, learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State respondent. 2. On the last occasion, Mr. P. Borthakur, learned Addl. Public Prosecutor was directed to get an instructions from the concerned Police Station as to whether Page No.# 2/3 any case is registered against the petitioner, namely Sh. Sinul Hoque. However, when the matter is taken up today, Mr. P. Borthakur, learned Addl. Public Prosecutor had submitted that he got instructions from the Mangaldoi Police Station intimating him that although no case is registered against the petitioner but an enquiry of cheating with regard to the said case regarding misappropriation of fund of Arunodoi Scheme is going on. 3. Mr. I. Hoque, learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the Police personnel had visited his house a number of times, which he has stated in paragraph No. 3 of his petition to the effect that the Police personnel has informed his family members that an FIR has been lodged against him in the Police Station. In view of the same, the petitioner has prayed for bail. The petitioner has also annexed an FIR which although is not registered in his petition, wherein it is revealed that the petitioner by visiting door to door with a machine had taken money from various persons in the name of Arunodoi Scheme and that he has misappropriated the money of the poor and unprivileged people and that he also did not return the said money collected from them. 4. Mr. I. Hoque, learned counsel for the petitioner however submits that the FIR has been lodged after 1 year of the said allegations and there was no complaint from any quarters during the said period. 5. Mr. P. Borthakur, learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State respondent however submits that the enquiry with regard to the embezzlement of money in connection with Arunodoi Scheme has been enquired into by the concerned authorities. 6. In view of the submissions made by the parties and on perusal of the Page No.# 3/3 records of the case, this Court deems it fit to release the petitioner on pre-arrest bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- with 2 local sureties of like amount to the satisfaction of the arresting authority under the following conditions:- 1. The petitioner will appear before the arresting authority within 10 (ten) days from today and will co-operate with the investigation. 2. The petitioner will not temper with the evidence or influence any other witnesses. 3. The petitioner will not leave the place of residence without the permission of the arresting authority. 7. Accordingly, the Anticipatory Bail Application stands disposed of. JUDGE Comparing Assistant