JUDGMENT :

Petitioners, in all the aforesaid petitions, have approached this Court for grant of anticipatory bail, under Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (for short ‘Cr.PC), in case FIR No.23 of 2021, dated 3.3.2021, registered under Sections 420, 467, 468 & 471 of the Indian Penal Code (for short ‘IPC’), in Police Station East, Shimla.

2. Status Report stands filed, wherein it is stated that Shri Navin Kumar Patial, Branch Manager of State Bank of India, Panthaghati (Shimla), presented an application/to the police, stating therein that on 8.12.2015, petitioners Jitender Verma and Sanjeev Kumar approached State Bank of Bikaner and Jaipur (now after merger, State Bank of India) and made a request for grant of Home Loan of Rs.15,00,000/- for purchase of property, and that request of these petitioners was considered by the Bank and the Bank agreed to grant Home Loan on the terms and conditions as stipulated in the Sanction Letter. Thereafter, in order to secure the loan, these petitioners mortgaged their property and deposited original title document, i.e. Sale Deed, registered vide registration No.2698, vide which equitable mortgage has been created, and the bank sanctione