IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.6663 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-116 Year-2025 Thana- NADI District- Supaul ====================================================== Renu Devi W/O Krishna Prasad Tulsi @ Krishna Prasad R/O Village- Tulsi Jivika Gram Sansathan, Jan Vitaran Pranali Licence No. 14/2018, Kadmaha, P.S- Supaul, Nadi Thana, Distt.- Supaul. ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr.Baleshwar Kamat For the State : Mr.Bharat Lal, APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE AJIT KUMAR ORAL ORDER 2 04-02-2026 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. 2. The petitioner is apprehending her arrest in connection with Supaul Nadi P.S. Case No. 116 of 2025 (G.R, No. 2287 of 2025), F.I.R dated 13.09.2025 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 and 07 of the Essential Commodities Act. 3. According to prosecution case, the informant had submitted a report to Supaul Nadi P.S. alleging that in course of inspection of the shop of the petitioner about 39.16 qunital wheat was less in the godown, which was sold in the black- market and it is also alleged that she is also involved in black Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6663 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 2/4 marketing and distributing less quantity to the consumers. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the PDS licence is said to have been issued in favour of Tulsi Jivika Gram Sangathan, in which Kiran Devi is the Chairman, Sanju Devi is the secretary and the petitioner – Renu Devi is Treasurer. It is next submitted that for an allegation of stock deviation, the licence is said to have been suspended and was tagged with the shop of the Sri Ram Krishna Pandit bearing License No. 45/2016 FPS Code-120800400049 of the same Gram Panchayat, Kadamaha. It is further submitted that the allegations of the food grains being deviated by referring to the POS machine get falsified with Annexure-P/5, whereby the remaining food grains have been received by Sri Ram Krishna Pandit, to whom the license with respect to Tulsi Jivika Gram Sangathan is said to be tagged with. It is next submitted that while registering the First Information Report by Block Supply Officer, Marauna, Annexure-5 has not been taken into consideration. 5. Learned APP for the State opposes the prayer for anticipatory bail application. 6. Considering the fact that the quantity, which is being shown to have been black marketed by this petitioner, has already been received by Sri Ram Krishna Pandit with whom, Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.6663 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 3/4 the license of Tulsi Jivika Gram Sangathan is tagged with. This Court finds it proper to grant the privilege of anticipatory bail. Accordingly, anticipatory bail is granted to the petitioner. 7. Let the petitioner, above named, in the event of his/her arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of thirty days from the date of receipt of the order, 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 Smt. Rakhi Kumari, learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Supaul in connection with Supaul Nadi P.S. Case No. 116 of 2025 (G.R, No. 2287 of 2025), subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure / Section 482(2) of the Bhartiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita and with other following conditions:- (i) one of the bailors should be the family member/relative of the petitioner(s) who shall provide official document to show his/her bona fide; (ii) the petitioner(s) shall appear on each and every date before the Trial Court and failure to do so for two consecutive dates without plausible reason will entail cancellation of his/her/their bail bond by the Trial Court itself; (iii) the petitioner(s) shall in no way try to induce or Patna High Court CR. MISC. MISC. No.6663 of 2026(2) dt.04-02-2026 4/4 promise or threat the witnesses or tamper with the evidences, failing which the State shall be at liberty to take steps for cancellation of the bail bonds; (iv) the petitioner(s) shall desist from committing any criminal offence again, failing which the State shall be at liberty to take steps for cancellation of their bail bonds. abhishekkr/- (Ajit Kumar, J) U T