- 1 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:19957 CRL.P No. 5266 of 2025 IN THE HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA AT BENGALURU DATED THIS THE 11TH DAY OF JUNE, 2025 BEFORE THE HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S VISHWAJITH SHETTY CRIMINAL PETITION NO. 5266 OF 2025 BETWEEN: MR. SANJEEV KUMAR RAM S/O BINOD RAM AGED 22 YEARS RESIDING AT BABU BARAHI GRAMA, MADHUBANIMA DHUBANI, BIHAR - 847 224. …PETITIONER (BY SRI MANJUNATHA B.B, ADV.) AND: THE STATE OF KARNATAKA SHO BY KORAMANGALA POLICE STATION, REPRESENTED BY ITS STATE PUBLIC PROSECUTOR BANGALORE - 560 001. …RESPONDENT (BY SMT. RASHMI PATEL, HCGP) THIS CRL.P IS FILED U/S 438 CR.PC (FILED U/S 482 BNSS) PRAYING TO ENLARGE THE PETITIONERS ON BAIL IN THE EVENT OF HIS ARREST BY THE RESPONDENT KORAMANGALA P.S. IN FIR NO.110/2024 BY THE RESPONDENT POLICE FOR ALLEGED OFFENCE P/U/S 381 OF IPC BEFORE LV ACC AND SJ BENGALURU OR ON THEIR APPEARANCE BEFORE THE COURT. THIS PETITION, COMING ON FOR ORDERS, THIS DAY, ORDER WAS MADE THEREIN AS UNDER: Digitally signed by NANDINI M S Location: HIGH COURT OF KARNATAKA - 2 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:19957 CRL.P No. 5266 of 2025 CORAM: HON'BLE MR JUSTICE S VISHWAJITH SHETTY ORAL ORDER 1. Accused in Crime No.110/2024 registered by Koramangala Police Station, Bengaluru City, for the offence punishable under Section 381 IPC, is before this Court under Section 438 of Cr.PC seeking anticipatory bail. 2. Heard the learned Counsel for the parties. 3. FIR in Crime No.110/2024 was registered by Koramangala Police Station, Bengaluru City, against the petitioner herein for the aforesaid offence based on the first information dated 10.04.2024 received from Khushboo Gupta W/o Kailash Gupta. Apprehending arrest in the case, petitioner had filed Crl. Misc. No.11076/2024 before the jurisdictional Sessions Court, which was dismissed on 09.12.2024. Therefore, he is before this Court. 4. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is an youngster and for extraneous reasons, the first informant who was the employer of the petitioner, has filed a false case against him. The petitioner is ready and willing to - 3 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:19957 CRL.P No. 5266 of 2025 cooperate with the police for the purpose of investigation. Accordingly, he prays to allow the petition. 5. Per contra, learned HCGP has opposed the petition. She submits that the petitioner is a person having criminal antecedents and the allegation in the present case against him is of committing theft of gold and other valuable articles worth more than Rs.20 lakhs. Therefore, custodial interrogation of the accused person becomes necessary. 6. Perusal of the first information would go to show that petitioner who was the employee in the office/residence of the first informant had allegedly committed theft of silver and gold ornaments worth about Rs.20 lakhs and cash of Rs.3 lakhs, and had left the house. It is in this background, on 10.04.2024, first informant had approached the police. In the first information, it is stated that in the CCTV camera installed in her house, it was found that the petitioner had entered her room at about 9.46 p.m. on 06.04.2024. 7. Learned HCGP has brought to the notice of the court that the petitioner is involved in another case, registered at Delhi in - 4 - HC-KAR NC: 2025:KHC:19957 CRL.P No. 5266 of 2025 FIR No.996/2021 and after he was enlarged on bail in the said case, he had come to Bengaluru and was working in the office/residence of the first informant. 8. Petitioner hails from Bihar and the allegation in the first information is that he had committed theft of cash, silver and gold ornaments from the house of the first informant. The stolen articles are required to be recovered in the present case for which custodial interrogation of the petitioner becomes necessary. 9. According to the first informant, in the CCTV camera installed in her house, the movements of the petitioner on the alleged date of crime has been recorded. Under the circumstances, I am of the opinion that this is not a fit case for grant of anticipatory bail. Accordingly, petition is dismissed. Sd/- (S VISHWAJITH SHETTY) JUDGE KK