2025:JHHC:18253 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 3612 of 2025 ----- Amrita Kunwar, C/o Late Sabika Singh, R/o Village- Kotkhas, P.O. & P.S.- Lesliganj, District- Palamau, Jharkhand .... Petitioner(s). Versus The State of Jharkhand … Opp. Party(s). …… CORAM : SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Anurag Kashyap, Advocate For the State : Ms. Kumari Rashmi, AddI. P.P. …...... 02/ 08.07.2025: Heard, learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Sections 482 and 484 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Surksha Sanhita, 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending her arrest for offences under Sections 406, 409, 120(B). r/w 34 of IPC. 3. Petitioner is 76 years old lady. 4. The allegation in the F.I.R. is that the Gram Panchayat Pradhan and Secretary and others have misappropriated huge amount which was supposed to be disbursed to be beneficiaries for construction of house under Pradhan Mantri Awaas Scheme. It is alleged that the photographs of some different houses were shown and, on that basis, payments were taken in the name of the beneficiaries also. 5. After hearing the parties, I find that petitioner is one of the beneficiaries, there is no direct allegation against this petitioner, further petitioner is about 76 years old lady, I feel that this is a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail of the petitioner. 6. Accordingly, this Anticipatory Bail Application stands allowed. The petitioner, above named, is directed to surrender before the learned court below within four weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order and on the event of her surrender or arrest, she shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each, to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate 1st Class, Palamau at Daltonganj, in connection with Lesliganj P.S. Case No.44 of 2023, subject to the condition that one of the bailers should be a close relative of the petitioner and other should be a resident of State of Jharkhand, having sufficient landed property in his name or in the name of his ancestors in which he is having share and to that effect, he has to file an affidavit before the Trial Court indicating his share in the property. (ANANDA SEN, J.) R.S./