IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.5995 of 2011 1. SHIVAJI CHAUDHARY SON OF NIRTYDEV CHAUDHARY. 2. GANESH SAH SON OF MITHU SAH. 3. KISHORI SAH SON OF NARAYAN SAH. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3 18.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners, being the Panchayat Teachers, are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code. The informant, being the Block Education Officer, had received information about the transportation of five bags of rice of Mid-day meal of Middle School, Maidan. The informant found the rice kept in the house of Ram Bhagat Panjiyar for sale. Subsequently, Ram Bhagat Panjiyar admitted that rice was kept by one Chandra Bhushan Kumar. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that the petitioners were not named in the F.I.R. Moreover, the headmaster is empowered to handle the grains of Mid-day meal. 2 Let the petitioners deposit Rs. 5,000/- each before the learned court below, which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme, which will be subject to the result of the case Considering the fact that other named accused persons have been granted anticipatory bail by this Court, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in connection with Sursand P.S. Case No. 120/2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)