2025:JHHC:17718 1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JHARKHAND AT RANCHI A.B.A. No. 451 of 2025 ------ Deepak Kumar Sinha @ Dipak Kumar Sinha, aged about 36 years, S/O Sunil Sinha, R/O – Ma Kali Papers Ltd. Industrial Area Balidih, PO + PS – Balidih, District – Bokaro, Jharkhand. … Petitioner Versus The State of Jharkhand … … Opposite Party ------ CORAM: SRI ANANDA SEN, J. ------ For the Petitioner(s) : Mr. Bhaskar Trivedi, Advocate : Mr. Rahul Dey, Advocate : Mr. Priyanshi Nilesh, Advocate For the Informant : Mr. Rohit Ranjan Sinha, Advocate For the State : Mr. Vineet Kumar Vashishtha, Advocate ----- 05/ 03rd July 2025 1. Heard the learned counsel for the parties. 2. This anticipatory bail application under Section 482 and 484 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), 2023, has been preferred by the petitioner apprehending his arrest for offences registered under Sections 314, 316(4), 344, 318(1), of the B.N.S., 2023. 3. Learned A.P.P. representing the State opposes the prayer of the petitioner for grant of anticipatory bail. 4. It is alleged that the petitioner happens to be Accountant at Ma Kali Papers Private Ltd., Industrial Area, Bokaro. It is alleged that some amount of the company was being received by him and without depositing the same in the account, the same was misappropriated. In the FIR, it is further alleged that when this misappropriation was confronted with by the company, the petitioner accepted that he has misappropriated Rs. One Lakh Eighty Thousand and agreed to return the same, but he did not return. Thereafter, an FIR was lodged stating that after reconciliation, the amount defalcated was calculated to be Rs. Two Lakh Eighty Thousand and not Rs. One Lakh Eighty Thousand. 2025:JHHC:17718 2 5. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that Rs. One Lakh Eighty Thousand has been refunded to the informant-company, which the learned counsel appearing on behalf of the informant has also accepted. 6. Learned counsel for the informant further submits that nearly Rs. One Lakh is due now. 7. Considering the fact that the petitioner has refunded Rs. One Lakh Eighty Thousand and he is ready to co-operate with the investigation, I am inclined to allow this Anticipatory Bail Application subject to the condition that the petitioner will appear once in 15 days till submission of the charge-sheet before the Investigating Officer and co-operate with the investigation. 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 his surrender or arrest, he 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 Court of S.D.J.M, Bokaro, in connection with Balidih P.S. Case No. 335 of 2024, 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. 8. Accordingly, this anticipatory bail application stands allowed. (ANANDA SEN, J.) Aditi