2024 INSC 807 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPEAL NO. __________OF 2024 [Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Criminal) No.8906 of 2022] HDFC BANK LTD. …APPELLANT(S) VERSUS THE STATE OF BIHAR & ORS. …RESPONDENT(S) J U D G M E N T B.R. GAVAI, J. 1. Leave granted. 2. This appeal challenges the judgment and order dated 8th June, 2022 passed by the learned Single Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Patna in Criminal Writ Jurisdiction Case No. 1375 of 2021 wherein the learned Single Judge dismissed the Writ Petition preferred by the present appellant, HDFC Bank1, to 1 Hereinafter referred to as the ‘appellant-bank’. 1quash the First Information Report2 being Case No. 549 of 2021 registered at Gandhi Maidan Police Station, Patna on 22nd November, 2021, against certain officials of the appellant-bank working at its Exhibition Road Branch, Patna for the offences punishable under Sections 34, 37, 120B, 201, 206, 217, 406, 409, 420 and