Jawahar Prasad Singh@ Jawahar Pd. SinghversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                              CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No.31858 of 2026
                        Arising Out of PS. Case No.-318 Year-2025 Thana- SUPAUL District- Supaul
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                 Jawahar Prasad Singh @ Jawahar Pd. Singh, aged about 61 years, Male, S/O
                 Late Laxmi Narayan Singh, resident of Kunauli East, P.S.- Kunauli, Dist.-
                 Supaul.
                                                                         ... ... Petitioner/s

                                                        Versus

                 The State of Bihar
                                                        ... ... Opposite Party/s
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :        Mr. Shailendra Kumar Singh, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :        Mr. Umesh Lal Verma, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE KHATIM REZA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   07-05-2026                  Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned

                   Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

                                2. The petitioner apprehends arrest in connection with

                   Supaul PS Case No.318 of 2025 dated 21.06.2025, instituted

                   under Sections 318(4), 338, 336(3) of the Bharatiya Nyaya

                   Sanhita, 2023.

                                3. The allegation against the petitioner and others is

                   that they being the officials of Revenue Department

                   recommended for mutation of the government land in favour of

                   private persons.

                                4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the

                   petitioner was the In-charge Circle Inspector when the alleged

                   mutation of the land was done by the Circle Officer. It is further
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          submitted that the allegation against the petitioner is that he

          forwarded and recommended the proposal of the then Revenue

          Karamchari before the Circle Officer and thereafter the Circle

          Officer made the mutation of gairmazaru aam and khas land in

          favour of the private persons. It is also submitted that the

          Revenue Karamchari had reported that the land does not belong

          to Aam/Khas land and on that basis the petitioner had

          recommended the application for mutation. Thereafter, the

          Circle Officer passed the order for mutation. It is also submitted

          that the on the said land previous Jamabandi was running in the

          name of the private persons. Further submission is that co-

          accused Raj Kumar Chouhdary has been granted bail by a co-

          ordinate Bench of this Court vide order dated 05.05.2026 passed

          in Cr. Misc. No.23070 of 2026. Lastly, it is submitted that the

          petitioner has no criminal antecedents.

                       5. Learned APP has opposed the prayer for bail.

                       6. Having considered the facts and circumstances of

          the case and submissions of learned counsel for the parties, in

          the event of arrest or surrender before the Court below within

          six weeks from today, the petitioner be released on bail upon

          furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two

          sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned
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                      Chief Judicial Magistrate, Supaul, in Supaul PS Case No.318 of

                      2025, subject to the conditions laid down in Section 482(2) of

                      the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023.

                                   7. The application stands allowed.


                                                                   (Khatim Reza, J)
J. Alam/-

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