Ravi PrakashversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.17755 of 2026
                   Arising Out of PS. Case No.-294 Year-2018 Thana- COMPLAINT CASE - MASAURHI
                                                      District- Patna
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                 Ravi Prakash Son of Dharmendra Kumar Resident of Village- Bhaluari, P.O.-
                 Shankarpur Badiha, P.S.- Indrapuri, District- Rohtas

                                                                             ... ... Petitioner/s
                                                    Versus
                 The State of Bihar

                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :     Mr. Ujjwal Kumar Singh, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :     Mr. Mohammed Arif, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE SUNIL DUTTA MISHRA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   25-03-2026                           Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and

                   learned A.P.P. for the State.

                                     2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case

                   registered under Sections 406, 409 and 420 of the Indian Penal

                   Code.

                                   3.    It is alleged that petitioner has misused the

                   government fund allocated for construction of school building.

                                   4.    Learned counsel appearing on behalf of the

                   petitioner submits that petitioner is innocent and has falsely

                   been implicated in the present case due to dirty village politics.

                   Further submission is that petitioner is a Junior Engineer and

                   after joining the service, he was on training and thereafter, work
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          was allotted to him vide letter dated 28.11.2014. At the time of

          alleged occurrence, petitioner was neither the member of the

          committee nor he was posted to see the construction work.

          Petitioner had no concerned with the construction of the

          concerned school and the question of any involvement of the

          petitioner in the alleged occurrence does not arise. He next

          submits that the complainant has already died. No inquiry is

          pending against the petitioner before the department. Petitioner

          has got no criminal antecedent and he undertakes to cooperate in

          the trial. There is no chance of absconding of the petitioner or

          tampering with the evidence.

                        5. Learned A.P.P. for the State opposed the prayer for

          bail.

                         6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of

          the case, submissions of learned counsel for the parties, nature

          of allegation and clean antecedent of the petitioner, let the above

          named petitioner be released on bail, in the event of arrest or

          surrender before the learned court below within a period of six

          weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-

          (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount

          each to the satisfaction of learned Sub-Divisional Judicial

          Magistrate, Masaurhi, Patna in connection with Complaint Case
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                      No. 294(C) of 2018, subject to the conditions as laid down

                      under Section 482(2) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha

                      Sanhita.



                                              (Sunil Dutta Mishra, J)
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