IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.144 of 2026 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-469 Year-2025 Thana- RAMPUR District- Gaya ====================================================== Gaurav Kumar S/o- Nandan Prasad @ Nandan kumar R/o - Tekari Road Fatehganj, P.S - Kotwali, District - Gaya ... ... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar ... ... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Arun Kumar, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Prem Kumar Jha, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE PRABHAT KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 20-01-2026 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. 2. Petitioner apprehends arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 316(2), 318(4), 338, 336(3), 340(2) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. 3. Prosecution case, in brief, is that petitioner while functioning as Executive Assistant in electricity supply office, dishonestly collected money from the consumers on pretext of facilitating bills and thus, petitioner illegally collected Rs. 4,50,000/-. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has committed no offence. Petitioner was posted as Executive Assistant in the power supply department, Gaya and has accepted collection of Rs. 3,05,581/- from the consumers and issued receipt of the same amount on Patna High Court CR. MISC. No.144 of 2026(2) dt.20-01-2026 2/2 carbon copy of earlier issued receipt in the name of Rama Kant Kumar. However, petitioner has already deposited Rs. 4,50,000/- against the defalcated amount of Rs. 3,05,581/-on 11.09.2025 which is also admitted in the F.I.R. itself. Petitioner claims clean antecedent. 5. Learned A.P.P. for the State vehemently opposed the bail application. 6. Considering the fact that petitioner has already deposited the defalcated amount and bears clean antecedent, this anticipatory bail is allowed and it is ordered that let the above named petitioner in the event of his arrest/surrender before the court below within a period of eight weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail-bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya Jee in connection with Rampur P. S. Case No. 469 of 2025, subject to condition as laid down under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023. Navya/- (Prabhat Kumar Singh, J) U T