IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR.MISC. NO. 24199 OF 2009 BIJAYENDRA KUMAR SINGH, SON OF LATE DEO NARAYAN SINGH, PRESENTLY POSTED AS COMMERCIAL TAX OFFICER, ADITYAPUR CIRCLE, JAMSHEDPUR, POLICE STATION SAKEHI, DISTRICT SINGHBHUM, STATE JHARKHAND VERSUS THE STATE OF BIHAR THROUGH VIGILANCE ******** 3 11/12/2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner is apprehending arrest in a case under Sections 109, 120B, 201, 409, 420, 465, 467, 468, 471 and 477(A) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 13(2) read with Section 13(1) (c) (d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The First Information Report was instituted in the year 1997 and the charge sheet was submitted in the year 2007. The petitioner is said to be the Assistant Treasury Officer. The matter relates to payment of bills from the period 1992-93 to 1994-95. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that at that stage, there was no mechanism for the Treasury Officer/Assistant Treasury Officer to cross- check whether the bills were genuine. It was only in the year 1996 that a system was introduced to send a copy of the bill from the Treasury concerned for the purposes of ascertaining whether the bills presented were genuine 2 or not. Considering the aforesaid submissions and the fact that this petitioner has been granted anticipatory bail vide order dated 06.11.2009 passed in Criminal Misc. No. 23098 of 2009, the above named petitioner is directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest/surrender before the Court below within a period of six weeks from today in Vigilance Police Station Case No. 11 of 1997 (Special Case no. 19 of 1997) on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Special Judge, Vigilance-I, Patna subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Anand ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)