IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.27246 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-48 Year-2022 Thana- KOTWALI District- Patna ====================================================== Gorakh Nath Singh Son of Late Raja Singh Permanent resident of Village- Sikariya, P.S.- Kurtha, Distt.- Arwal, presently residing Old Jakkanpur, Janta Road, P.S.- Gardanibagh, Dist.- Patna ... ... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Bhim Sen Prasad, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Md. Aslam Ansari, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 4 11-08-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. 2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 469, 471 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code. 3. As per the prosecution case, the informant (Deputy Registrar-cum-Assistant Registrar I/c, Legal Cell of the Patna High Court) alleges that accused petitioner along with co- accused persons are Advocate Clerks and are committing serious offences like using counterfeit e-court fee stamp of different denominations in different MJC cases filed in the Hon’ble Patna High Court. Further, the Stamp Reporters while making stamp report of the respective cases doubted the genuineness of the e-court fee stamp through their office notes and reported that the same needs to be verified from SHCIL Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27246 of 2025(4) dt.11-08-2025 2/3 counter. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence. He submits that petitioner is an Advocate Clerk attached to a learned lawyer of this Court and files cases and he cannot even in wildest of his dream think of committing such heinous offence. Learned counsel submits that the allegations may be true but he has not deliberately purchased counterfeit e-court fee stamp or the e- court fee stamp which were stamped on the respective petitions which is not in control of the petitioner. It is next submitted that the matter is under investigation and the police till date has not arrested the petitioner, it is further submitted that petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation and will present himself as and when required by the police for questioning. Co-accused, with similar allegation, has already been allowed pre-arrest bail by a co-ordinate bench of this Court vide order passed in Cr.Mis.No. 58247/2022 (annexure 4). Petitioner has got clean antecedent. 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, the petitioner above-named, in the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.27246 of 2025(4) dt.11-08-2025 3/3 event of his arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of eight 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna in Kotwali Police Station Case No. 48 of 2022, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. shashi/- (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) U T