IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.45490 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-90 Year-2024 Thana- BARARI District- Bhagalpur ====================================================== Sourav Pradhan Son of Suresh Chandra Pradhan The Then Senior Officer, Masters Development Management (India) Private Limited, Unit - 207 and 208, Sagar Tek Plaza, B Wing, Sakinaka Junction, P.S- Sakinaka, Andheri Kurlla Road, Andheri East Mumbai - 400072 ... ... Petitioner/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. Jeta Singh S/O- Late Sadanand Singh Resident of Sadavinod apartment parisor ray bahadur shivshankar sahay path mohalla- Bhikhanpur ps- Tilka manjhi dist- Bhagalpur ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Sanjay Kumar Singh For the Opposite Party/s : Mr.Satyendra Narayan Singh ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 6 15-05-2026 Heard learned senior counsel, Mr. Ramakant Sharma, appearing for the petitioner, learned A.P.P. for the State and learned counsel for the informant. 2. Petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 316(2), 316(5), 319(2), 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 308(3), 161(2) of the B.N.S., 2023. 3. The learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that Tapovardhan Prakritik Chikitsa Kendra is registered under the Society Registration Act Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45490 of 2025(6) dt.15-05-2026 2/4 where people come for Prakritik Chikitsa, further for expanding the Center, an agreement was entered in between the Director of the Center (informant) and Master Development Management Private Limited, a Mumbai based Project Management Company on 11.11.2021, for completing the construction of the Center, worth Rs. 36 Crores within a period of 16 months, further the fee payable to the management company was Rs. 68,16,000/- which was to be paid in 16 installments, but the company did not complete the work within the stipulated 16 months, rather the employees of the company overstayed for a period of 12 months without completing the work, further on 03.05.2022, the informant had complained to the Chairman of the company namely Jaspreet Singh (Petitioner) with regard to the pace of the work and he had assured that the work would be completed within the stipulated time, but the same was not done, rather the company saddled the informant with extra fee, which was objected, but the company instead of the agreed amount plus GST realised an amount of Rs. 93,79,000/- in excess, further alleges that the company realised an amount in excess of Rs. 74,31,807/- despite not completing the work, hence alleges that the agreement entered in between the informant and the company was nothing, but an illusion, as Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45490 of 2025(6) dt.15-05-2026 3/4 work was not completed within the stipulated time and money in excess was charged in connivance with the officials of the informant. 4. The learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that the petitioner has falsely been implicated in the instant case by the informant, it is further submitted that similarly situated, co-accused, Saikat Sen Gupta and others, have been already been granted privilege of anticipatory bail by the Hon’ble Supreme Court vide order dated 06.04.2026 passed in S.L.P. (Cr.) No. 3786 of 2026, it is further submitted that if privilege of anticipatory bail is granted to the petitioner, the petitioner will not abscond rather will cooperate in the investigation. 5. At this stage, learned counsel for the informant submits that he has instruction not to oppose the anticipatory bail application of the petitioner. 6. After hearing learned counsel for the parties, I am inclined to grant privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. Let the petitioner, as named above, in the event of his arrest or surrender within four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.45490 of 2025(6) dt.15-05-2026 4/4 learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur, in connection with Barari P.S. Case No. 90 of 2024, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure/Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. sanjeev/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T