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2026:CGHC:6630

NAFR

HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR

MCRC No. 10164 of 2025

Pratap Patra S/o Shri Dhananjay Patra Aged About 33 Years R/o- 122/n

Monohar Pukur Road, Kali Ghat, Post Office- Kali Ghat, District- Kolkata

(West Bengal).

... Applicant

versus

State of Chhattisgarh Through Station House Officer, Police Station Cyber

Range, District Raipur C.G.

... Respondent

For Applicant : Mr. Navin Shukla, Advocate

For Respondent/State : Dr. Sourabh Kumar Pandey, Deputy

Advocate General.

Digitally

signed by Hon'ble Shri Ramesh Sinha, Chief Justice

PREETI

PREETI KUMARI

KUMARI Date:

2026.02.06 Order on Board

18:03:50

+0530

0 5.02.2026

1. This is the first bail application filed under Section 483 of the Bhartiya

Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023 for grant of regular bail to the

applicant who has been arrested in connection with Crime No. 4/2024

registered at Police Station – Cyber Range, District - Raipur (C.G.), for

the offence punishable under Sections 420, 34 of IPC, 1860.

2. The prosecution story in brief is that, complainant Vikas Lahoti gave a

written complaint at Police Station Cyber Police Thana Rangestating

that on 27.04.2024 he received a WhatsApp message on his mobile

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no. 9685860789 from a girl named Asna from mobile number

7015578579, who told him about share trading and also told him that

she does this work along with Naresh Rathi. Both of them then told the

complainant about the high profits he could earn from sharing trading,

which led him to fall for their words. They then added him to the

Avendus Stock Market Outlook- B108 WhatsApp group, which had

approximately 150 members. All the members in the group were

sharing messages screenshots bank details etc., regarding profit on

share market. Then the complainant also downloaded Asamtop app by

clicking on the link given by Asna for investing money in share market.

Asana created an ID and password for the complainant to operate the

app through which the complainant logged in. After that Asana asked

him to invest money for share market trading through the appitself, he

was asked to invest money for share trading in different bank accounts

on different dates from 14.05.2024 to 11.06.2024 He deposited the

amount from his Kotak Mahindra Bank account number 2213802068,

4311682801 branch Pandri and IDBI bank account no.

1706102000003865 branch Fafadih a total of Rs. 59,23,000/-. When

the complainant attempted to withdraw Rs. 9,00,000/- the money after

making a profit from his share trading investment, he wanted to

withdraw Rs. 9,00,000/- instead of withdrawing the money to the IPO

Majenda Life Care which he had filed a complaint about and when he

questioned Asana about the same, he was told that his money was

invested in the IPO of Majenda Life Care a total of 2,18,578 shares

each priced at Rs. 35 /- for a total value of Rs. 76,50,230 /- and he

would have to buy those Shares to receive the remaining shares he

was then told to sell all these shares he owned first after selling them

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all his profit and share value would be approximately 55,00,000/-

fearing that his money was being lost he transferred a final amount of

Rs. 21,00,000/- on June 10th and 11th. Whenever he tried to withdraw

the money it would not be withdrawn and when he tried to sell the

shares they would not sell. As Asana and Naresh Rathi deceived him

for money amounting to rupees 59,23,000/- by luring him with the

promise of profits in share trading. Based on the applicant's complaint

the cyber police station Raipur Range registered crime number 4/2024

U/s 420 and 34 of the Indian panel code and took it up for

investigation. During the investigation the Complainant Vikas Lahoti

statement was recorded and information was obtained banks. Co

accused Pradeep Kumar Jain, S/o- Hastimal Jain, Age- 48 years,

Jaipur,account holder of Axis bank account no. 923020048747439

appeared at the police station after being served a notice under section

35(3) of the BNSS. A memorandum statement was recorded for accuse

Pradeep Kumar Jain in which he had stated that he had