Ranjit Kumar Gupta @ Ranjit KumarversusThe State of Bihar

                      IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
                             CRIMINAL MISCELLANEOUS No. 39179 of 2026
                        Arising Out of PS. Case No.-1 Year-2019 Thana- DUMARIYA District- Gaya
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                 Ranjit Kumar Gupta @ Ranjit Kumar, S/o Jitendra Saw, Resident of Village -
                 Rampur, P.S. - Makhdumpur Chhatiana, District - Jehanabad.
                                                                            ... ... Petitioner
                                                 Versus

           1.    The State of Bihar
           2.     Shila Rani, W/o Binod Prajapati, R/o Village - Mandar, P.S.-Dumariya, Dist.
                  - Gayaji.
                                                                       ... ... Opposite Parties
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                 Appearance :
                 For the Petitioner/s     :         Md Jubair Ansari, Advocate
                 For the Opposite Party/s :         Mr. Abhay Kumar, APP
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                 CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA
                                       ORAL ORDER

2   18-06-2026                  Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and

                   learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

                                2. The accused/petitioner is named in the FIR and

                   apprehending his arrest in connection with Dumaria P.S.

                   Case No.01 of 2019 registered under Section 420 of the

                   Indian Penal Code.

                                3.     As per FIR, the petitioner was alleged to

                   withdrew          Rs.        70,000/-        from       informant’s           A/c

                   No.2385000100024700                  (PNB,       Branch-Dumariya,         Dist.-

                   Gaya)        and           transferred      it     in    his      own         A/c

                   No.2389000100083958                    (PNB,       Branch-Umta,           Dist.-

                   Jehanabad) through ATM.
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                       4.     It is submitted by learned counsel appearing

          for petitioner that petitioner is working as a vegetable

          vendor at Delhi and he himself is the victim of the

          circumstances, as he could not understand that how the

          amount of Rs. 70,000/- was credited to his account. It is

          submitted that his only fault is this that he could not

          informed this transaction to the bank to take appropriate

          steps to return the said amount to the same account or to

          take other appropriate lawful action. Learned counsel

          appearing for petitioner made statement at Bar that he is

          under instruction that petitioner is ready to pay entire

          amount of Rs.70,000/- to the informant at the time of

          furnishing of bail bond through RTGS to the bank account of

          the informant or by demand draft.

                       5. Learned APP opposed the prayer of bail.

                       6. In view of aforesaid factual submissions and by

          taking note of fact as petitioner offered to return

          Rs.70,000/- to the informant, accordingly, the petitioner,

          above-named, in the event of his arrest or surrender in the

          court below within a period of four weeks from today, is
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                    directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of

                    Rs.10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the

                    like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial

                    Magistrate, First Clas, Sherghati (Gaya Ji) in connection with

                    Dumaria P.S. Case No.01 of 2019, subject to the conditions

                    as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal

                    Procedure (in short ‘CrPC’)/under Section 482(2) of the

                    Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 (in short ‘BNSS’)

                    and with further condition:-

                                 (i) That bail bond of the petitioner shall be

                    accepted only after showing the proof that Rs.70,000/- is

                    duly transferred to the account of the informant either by

                    RTGS or in alternate through bank draft duly received by

                    informant.


                                                        (Chandra Shekhar Jha, J.)
    Sanjeet/-

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