JUDGMENT

Jyotsna Rewal Dua, J. - Where, based on alleged, prima facie, strong evidence, serious allegations of cheating, criminal breach of trust, forgery and siphoning of student scholarship funds in conspiracy with the government and bank officials have been levelled against the head of a private educational institute, then should he be granted regular bail on the ground that the investigating agency will take indefinite and indeterminate time for completely investigating the matter, considering the fact that investigation of one out of the two involved institutes headed by this person is over and of the other institute is going on at slow pace, is the main question raised in this bail petition.

2. Gist of Allegations:-

2(i). An FIR No.133 of 2018 was registered on 16.11.2018 at Police Station East, Shimla. FIR was registered on the basis of a complaint made by the State Project Officer, State Project Monitoring and New Initiative Unit, Department of Higher Education, Himachal Pradesh, Shimla. It was alleged in the FIR that various complaints were received in the Education Department regarding non-receipt of scholarships by the students under the State and Centrally Sponsored Sch