Aditya Kumar vs State of Bihar - 2023 Supreme(Pat) 88

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2023 Supreme(Pat) 88

ANJANI KUMAR SHARAN
Aditya Kumar – Appellant
Versus
State of Bihar – Respondent

Advocates:
For the Petitioner: M/s S.D. Sanjay, Sr. Adv., Priya Gupta.
For the E.O.U. : Mr. Rana Vikram Singh, Retained Counsel EOU.

ORDER

Heard Mr. S.D. Sanjay, learned senior counsel assisted by Ms. Priya Gupta, learned Advocate for the petitioner and Mr. Rana Vikram Singh, learned counsel for the Economic Offences Unit.

2. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in Economic Offences P.S. (Patna) Case No. 33 of 2022 registered for the offences punishable under Sections 353, 387, 419, 420, 467, 468 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66 (C) and 66 (D) of the I.T. Act.

3. The prosecution case, in short, is that on the basis of a written information dated 15.10.2022 by the informant, Dy. S.P., Shri Bhaskar Ranjan, Economic Offences Unit (EOU), the present case has been registered. It has been alleged that on the basis of confidential information that while using the mobile number 9709303397 the user had called the then Director General of Police (DGP), Bihar, Patna and other senior officers on mobile phone and Whatsapp call to pressurize for doing an administrative act/taking administrative decision in favour of one senior officer. On verification of such fact, a team was constituted for which written intimation was also received from the DGP in which he informed that the user of mobile number 9709303397 was