CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S. B. PD. SINGH ORAL ORDER

2 18-12-2025 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner, learned counsel for the informant and learned APP for the State.

2. The instant application for anticipatory bail has been filed by the petitioner apprehending his arrest in connection with Karpi P.S. Case no. 58 of 2024 instituted for the offence under Sections 379 , 420 of the Indian Penal Code .

3. Prosecution case, in brief, is that the informant, Usha Kumari, ANM, while posted at Additional Primary Health Centre, Kochhasa, Karpi, Arwal, had opened a joint account in the year 2009 in the name of National Rural Health and Sanitation Committee, bearing Account No. 710801100112636, in which she was the Secretary and one Sheela Devi was the President. It is alleged that without the knowledge, consent or signature of the informant, Ram Prasad (GNM), in connivance with the petitioner (then In-charge Medical Officer/CMO, Community Health Centre, Karpi, Arwal), fraudulently replaced the informant’s photograph and signatures in the bank records. The petitioner allegedly authenticated the forged signatures and certified the change of specimen signature before the Branch Manager.