IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Cr.Misc. No.11999 of 2011
JAGDHARI PRASAD
Versus
THE STATE OF BIHAR
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2 18.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and
the State.
The petitioner being a teacher is apprehending
his arrest in a case registered under Sections 420, 467,
468, 471, 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code.
The accusation is of the appointment of one
Nawal Kishore Prasad as Assistant Teacher in 1997
against a non sanction post. Subsequently, the
appointment was found forged.
It is submitted by the learned counsel for the
petitioner that the petitioner was not named in the F.I.R.
and his name transpired on the confession of co-accused
who suggested that it was the petitioner who received the
money on behalf of the teacher which was illegally
appointed. It is further submitted that still the investigation is
pending and warrant of arrest has been issued in the year
2010.
Considering the aforesaid facts that still
investigation is pending and the accused was not named in
the F.I.R., let the petitioner namely, Jagdhari Prasad, in the
event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below
within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on
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anticipatory 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, Jehanabad in
connection with Karpi P.S. Case No. 47 of 1999, subject to
the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C.
( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)
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