IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.51091 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-114 Year-2016 Thana- VIGILANCE District- Patna ====================================================== Rajesh Paswan S/o Sri Madhusudan Paswan R/o - R.S. Bank/Tank, Navitoliya, District- Darbhanga, A/p Assistant Engg. Local Area Engineering Organisatiion, Wordk Divisiion- I, Madhubani ... ... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar Bihar 2. Jitendra Jha, Inspector of Police, Vigilance and Investigation Dept., Patna, S/o Late Kamlakant Jha Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. N.K. Agarwal, Sr. Adv. Mr.Shashi Bhushan Prasad For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Arvind Kumar, Law Officer, Vigilance Mr.Bhanu Pratap Singh, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SANDEEP KUMAR ORAL ORDER 4 19-02-2026 Heard learned senior counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Vigilance Case No. 114 of 2016 / Spl. Case No. 36 of 2016 registered for the offence under Sections 420, 409, 406, 408, 467, 468, 471, 120(b) of the Indian Penal Code and 13(2), 13(1)(d) of the PC Act. 3. As per the prosecution case, the allegation against the petitioner, who is a Junior Engineer, is that he has passed the bills of the contractor causing a loss of Rs. 9,75,424/- to the Government. 4. It has been submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioner is innocent and he has falsely been implicated in this case. He further submits that the alleged defalcated amount of Rs. 9,75,000/- has already been deposited Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.51091 of 2025(4) dt.19-02-2026 2/2 by the co-accused with the government. 5. Considering the fact that the petitioner is a government servant and the entire defalcated amount has been paid with the government, this application is allowed. 6. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the concerned Court below within four weeks from today, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Spl. Court/Judge (Vigilance Trap) Bhagalpur/concerned Court below in connection with Vigilance P.S. Case No. 36 of 2016, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973 / Section 482 of the BNSS. 7. As a condition of this order, the petitioner is directed to co-operate in the trial personally or through his advocate on the dates fixed in the trial. Vikas/- (Sandeep Kumar, J) U