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2. The present FIR arises during investigation of earlier FIR No. 11 dated 24.03.2022 at PS SV ACB Faridabad, wherein it was found that 13 fake work orders related to laying of interlocking tiles on the berm of RMC Road, Tigaon Road, Ballabgarh were fraudulently prepared in the name of Satbir tbir Singh, Contractor, on 27.11.2018. It has been alleged that the 1 of 10 original estimates of these works, totaling about Rs. 72.75 lakh, were illegally revised within 20 days on 08.12.2018 to about Rs.12.18 crore crores by officials of Municipal Corporation Farida Faridabad bad (MCF) in connivance with the contractor. Payments were released even though no such work orders were ever officially issued and no work was actually executed. Furthermore, verification erification of the dispatch register and records of other MCF divisions confirmed ed that these work orders were forged and dispatch numbers were fake. The fake work orders were processed and payments were approved by MCF officials, including Executive Engineer Prem Raj Singh, Superintendent Vinod Kumar, OIA Vishal Kaushik, RSA Naveen K Kumar, umar, Joint Director Audit Hargulal, Smt. Sashi Arya, Clerk Naveen Ratra, and others, who abused their official positions. It has been further alleged that payments ayments were released in favour of the Satbir Singh (petitioner herein) despite the fact that no such such work orders were ever officially issued and no work was actually executed. Verification of dispatch registers and official records revealed that the work orders were forged and dispatch numbers were fake. It has further been alleged that the petitioner petitioner,, in conspiracy with public servants, caused a wrongful loss of ₹12,18,71,165/- to the Government exchequer and corresponding wrongful gain to himself.

pre arrest bail. On strength of these submissions, the grant of concess concession ion of anticipatory bail is entreated for.

4. Per contra,, learned State counsel has opposed the grant of anticipatory bail to the petitioner by arguing that the allegations against the petitioner disclose his active and conscious participation in a well pplanned lanned criminal conspiracy, involving forgery of public records, fraudulent enhancement of work estimates and illegal siphoning of public funds. Learned State counsel has iterated that the fake work orders were prepared in the name of the petitioner and payments payments were released to him despite the fact that no work was actually executed. It is argued that grant of anticipatory bail at this stage would seriously prejudice the ongoing investigation. Referring to the reply dated 10.12.2025 filed by way of affidavit vit of Deepak Kumar, HPS, Dy. Superintendent of Police State Vigilance and Anti Corruption Bureau, Faridabad Range, Faridabad Faridabad,, learned 3 of 10 State counsel has submitted that during the course of investigation, it has been revealed that the work orders were never issued by the competent MCF division, the dispatch numbers were fake and the alleged execution of work is contradicted by official records. The alleged uploading of photographs on the Work Monitoring System is itself under investigation and appears to be manipulated to create false evidence. According to learned State, the investigation conducted so far has revealed sufficient incriminating material indicating the active involvement of the petitioner in the commission of the offence. Learned State counse counsell has emphasized that the petitioner was the principal beneficiary of the embezzled amount and his custodial interrogation is essential to trace the money trail, recover proceeds of crime and unearth the larger conspiracy involving other accused.