IN THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH AT GWALIOR BEFORE HON'BLE SHRI JUSTICE MILIND RAMESH PHADKE

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ON THE 6 OF FEBRUARY, 2026 MISC. CRIMINAL CASE No. 5600 of 2026 RAJVEER ARYA BANSAL AND OTHERS Versus THE STATE OF MADHYA PRADESH Appearance:

Shri Karan Virwani - Advocate for the applicants.

Ms. Kalpana Parmar - Public Prosecutor for the State.

ORDER This is the fourth application, under Section 482 of the Bhartiya Nagrik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, filed by the applicants No.1 and 2, namely, Rajveer Arya Bansal and Manoj Kumar Bansal seeking grant of anticipatory bail in connection with Crime No.255 of 2022 registered at Police Station Hazira, District Gwalior (M.P.) for the offence punishable under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471, 120-B and 193 of IPC.

As per the case of the prosecution, Smt. Madhvi Bansal/complainant’s husband, late Rajiv Bansal, who was the sole owner of multiple immovable properties in Gwalior, including the land situated at Hazira Chowk, a factory at Kalyanpura, agricultural land, and a residential house near Bijli Ghar, Tansen Road, was murdered on 10.04.2013 at the Kalyanpura factory premises. After his death, the complainant and her three children became his lawful heirs. This succession has been duly recorded with the relevant revenue authorities. In the year 2019, the complainant and her three children executed transfer deeds (benaamas) of a large portion of Kalyanpura, Malpura and Hajira Chowk properties situated at Gwalior in favour of Girraj Bansal and others. In those transactions, the complainant’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Swadesh Bansal, and father-in-law, Shri Rajveer Arya Bansal (applicant No.1) also executed separate transfer deeds and accepted that the complainant and her three children were the legal heirs of late Rajiv Bansal, thus, entitled as successors to the properties left by him. After execution of those transfer deeds, a number of properties remained in the industrial area, and one residential house near Bijli Ghar on Tansen Road continued to remain in the possession of the complainant and her children.

To dispossess the complainant from these remaining properties, it was alleged that her mother-in-law, father-in-law and both brothers-in-law, namely, Sanjeev Kumar Bansal and Manoj Kumar Bansal (applicant No.2) [sons of late Rajveer Arya Bansal], all residents of a house situated in front of Bijli Ghar, Tansen Road conspired together. They allegedly, with a common intention and in furtherance of the conspiracy, fabricated a false and forged Will purportedly of late Rajiv Bansal, placing the estate in the name of his paternal uncle (taau’s son), namely, Pankaj Kumar Bansal and Ashok Kumar Bansal [sons of late Shankarlal Bansal]. The forged Will was back- dated as 13.03.2013, and the complainant stated that it was prepared after the death of Rajiv Bansal (who died on 10.04.2013) and his age at the time of death was about 44 years. The complainant further alleged that a notary/Advocate colluded in preparing this fake/forged Will. It was further alleged that the notary/advocate, and the two witnesses, namely, Pankaj Kumar and Ashok Kumar Bansal, falsely stated that they obtained signatures of Rajiv Bansal on the Will in their presence whereas, in truth, this was done after his death and as part of a planned deception. Thereafter, the accused Manoj Bansal (applicant No.2) and his father Shri Rajveer Arya Bansal (applicant No.1), along with his mother Mrs. Swadesh Bansal and brother-in- law Sanjeev Bansal, began to threaten the complainant. They allegedly told her that they had arranged for the death of her husband (i.e., “we had him killed”), and next would be her turn and they demanded that if she wanted the safety and well-being of herself and her children, she must relinquish her rights in favour of their property in Mandideep, Raisen. The accused threatened that otherwise, by relying on the forged Will, they would appropriate all the complainant’s properties situated at Gwalior and leave the complainat