IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.65775 of 2025 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-92 Year-2025 Thana- Cyber P.S. District- East Champaran ====================================================== Purushottam Choudhary Son of Hari Narayan Chaudhary Resident of Village - Station Gali Road Ghorasahan, Post - Ghorasahan, P.S.- Ghorasahan, Dist.- East Champaran (Bihar) 845303. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Akash Shankar, Adv. Ms. Nausheen Fatma, Adv. Mr. Shushant Kumar, Adv. Mr. Atul Kumar Anjan, Adv. Mr. Raj Kumar, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Gauri Shankar Gupta, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SATYAVRAT VERMA ORAL ORDER 2 17-09-2025 1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. for the State. 2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in connection with Motihari Cyber P.S. Case No.92/2025, registered for the offences punishable under Sections 318(4), 319(2), 338, 336(3), 340(2), 303(2), 61(2), 317(5), 317(4), 111 of B.N.S.S., Sections 66(c), 66(d) of I.T. Act & Sections 25(1-b), 26, 35 of the Arms Act. 3. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that petitioner is a person with clean antecedent and the informant alleges that on information derived from Pratibimb Portal (a software of cyber police), the house Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65775 of 2025(2) dt.17-09-2025 2/4 holder of suspected mobile no. 9162687392 was raided and accused Dipanshu and Pappu were arrested and Dipanshu confessed that the aforesaid mobile belongs to him and also that there is allegation of fraud of Rs. 50,000/- committed through the aforesaid mobile, further, apart from the mobile, other articles like laptops, Cheques, Passbooks etc. were seized and the apprehended accused further disclosed that they received an amount of Rs. 80 lacs of defrauded money, it was also disclosed that Satyam and Ayush are mastermind of the racket, who transferred the defrauded amount of cyber crime through RSN games, further disclosed the name of other associates, involved in the crime, as Sanjeev, Ayush, Rohit, petitioner, Abhinesh, Sumit Saurabh and Raj Kishor Ram, the apprehended accused further disclosed that at the instance of Ayush, they sent money to Sumit Saurabh, with whom other associates also deposit money, thereafter, the house of Satyam Saurabh was raided but he had absconded but from his room, one cash-counting machine, a loaded country made pistol along with 07 live cartridges, Laptop, ATM cards, Passbooks etc were seized along with cash of Rs.7,50,000/- and a Thar vehicle, similarly the house of Satyam, Sanjeev and Sumit Saurav was also raided and articles, as detailed in the FIR, were seized, further Sumit Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65775 of 2025(2) dt.17-09-2025 3/4 confessed that he converted the defrauded money in USDT and also disclosed that Purusottam, Daya Shankar, Nikhil and Sajid, used to transfer the defrauded money to USDT and also converted the same in Crypto Currency on very large scale, further from Pursottam, Rs.15,98,880/- along with 99,500/- Nepali Currency was also recovered. 4. Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner submits that petitioner has been falsely implicated in the instant case at the instance of apprehended accused Dipanshu and Pappu. It is next submitted that though in the FIR, it is alleged that an amount of Rs.15,98,880/- along with 99,500/- in Nepali currency was recovered from the shop of the petitioner but then the name of petitioner does not figure in the seizure list. It is also submitted that various provision of the BNSS was not followed when the raid was conducted at the shop of the petitioner. 5. Learned A.P.P. vehemently opposes the anticipatory bail of the petitioner and submits that the case relates to cyber offences and from perusal of the allegation as alleged in the FIR, it would manifest that the accused persons after defrauding innocent people of their hard earned money were converting the amount in USDT or Cypto currency and Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.65775 of 2025(2) dt.17-09-2025 4/4 further huge amount of cash has also been recovered from the shop of the petitioner. It is next submitted that the present generation, who are tech savvy, are involved in such occurrences and the syndicate requires young boy with bright brains. The learned APP also submits that in the event if the privilege of anticipatory bail is granted to the petitioner, the petitioner may abscond. 6. Considering the submissions made by the learned APP and the fact that Rs.15,98,880/- along with 99,500/- in Nepali currency was recovered from the shop of the petitioner, the Court is not inclined to extend the privilege of anticipatory bail to the petitioner. 7. The anticipatory bail application of the petitioner is rejected. amit/- (Satyavrat Verma, J) U T