IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.78491 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-568 Year-2025 Thana- MOHANIYA District- Kaimur (Bhabua) ====================================================== 1. Ramawati Devi W/o Vrijant Singh @ Brijbansh Singh R/O - Vill- Barej, P.O - Belaudi, P.S - Mohania District- Kaimur (Bhabua), Bihar. 2. Sitaram Bari S/o Ramdhar Bari R/o Vill- Amarpura, P.O- Belaudi, P.S Mohania, District -Kaimur (Bhabua), Bihar. 3. Upendra Pasi S/O Mulaki Pasi R/o Vill- Barej, P.O - Belaudi, P.S - Mohania District- Kaimur (Bhabua), Bihar. 4. Dharmsheela Devi W/o Avdhesh (Adhyaksh) Singh R/o- Vill and Post- Belaudi, P.S Mohania District- Kaimur (Bhabua), Bihar. 5. S.M.Saddam S/o- Shamimuddin R/o- Vill and Post Belaudi, P.S.- Mohania District- Kaimur. (Bhabua), Bihar. 6. Mir Imran S/o- Late Shamimuddin R/o- Vill and Post Belaudi, P.S.- Mohania District- Kaimur (Bhabua), Bihar. 7. Bindu Sah S/o- Shingarchand Sah R/o Vill- Amarpura, P.O- Belaudi, P.S.- Mohania, District- Kaimur (Bhabua), Bihar ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Bindhyachal Singh,Sr. Advocate Mr.Abhishek Anand, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Parmeshwar Mehta, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SANDEEP KUMAR ORAL ORDER 4 23-02-2026 Heard Mr. Bindhyachal Singh, learned Senior Counsel for the petitioners and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Mohania P.S. Case No. 568 of 2025 registered for the offence under Sections 316(5), 318(4), 3(5) of the B.N.S. 3. As per the prosecution case, District Magistrate, Kaimur, issued instructions to take action on a complaint filed Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78491 of 2025(4) dt.23-02-2026 2/3 by Vivek Kumar Sinha. Subsequently, the District Magistrate ordered the lodging of an FIR regarding financial irregularities in the ‘Nal-Jal Yojna’ against several ward members, secretaries, and the Mukhiya of Gram Panchayat- Belaudi. 4. It has been submitted by the learned Senior Counsel for the petitioners that the petitioners are innocent and they have falsely been implicated in this case. It is next submitted that petitioner nos. 1 and 4 are women. Petitioners have clean antecedent. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioners. 6. Considering the fact that petitioner nos. 1 and 4 are women, this application is allowed with respect to petitioner nos. 1 and 4 only. 7. Let the petitioner nos. 1 and 4, above named, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned A.C.J.M.-I, Mohania/ concerned Court below in connection with Mohania P.S. Case No. 568 of 2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 438(2) of the Code of Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.78491 of 2025(4) dt.23-02-2026 3/3 Criminal Procedure, 1973 / Section 482 of the BNSS. 8. So far as, petitioner nos. 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7 are concerned, they are alleged to have defalcated government money, hence, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to them. Hence, it is dismissed accordingly. 9. This application stands partly allowed. tusharika/- (Sandeep Kumar, J) U T