IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.11426 of 2011 PRADIP KUMAR PAL Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02. 27.04.2011 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Sections 379 of the I.P.C. and Sections 135 and 136 of the Electricity Act. The accusation is of consumption of electricity illegally and the total loss caused has been calculated to the tune of Rs. 3, 21,096/-. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the consumption was calculated on the load of 20 H.P. motor whereas the petitioner was running 10 H.P. motor and the calculation has been revised by the Assistant Engineer to the effect that the total consumption caused to the tune of Rs. 1, 42, 535/- out of which Rs. 1,00,000/- was deposited in two installments on 20.10.2010 and 21.10.2010. Let the petitioner deposit Rs. 42,535/- before learned Court below within a period of three months. Let learned Court below invest the aforesaid amount in some fixed deposit schemes which will be subject to the result of the case. The deposit of the aforesaid amount will have no 2 bearing with regard to the claim and counter claim of the parties with regard to actual consumption. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Pradip Kumar Pal, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Kaimur in connection with Kudara P.S. Case No. 10 of 2011. The bail bond of the petitioner will be provisionally accepted which will be confirmed on deposit of the aforesaid amount within a period of three months. Shageer ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)