IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.46614 of 2009 LALLAN SINGH S/O Bhuwaneshwar Singh, resident of Village+Post- Suryapura, P.S. Sukhpura, District- Ballia (U.P) and at the relevant time posted as Deputy Development Commissioner, Madhubani-Cum-Chief Executive Officer Zila Parishad, Madhubani. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 1/2/2010 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The petitioner is facing prosecution for the offence under sections 409, 420, 467, 468 and 120 B of the Indian Penal Code. His defence for grant of anticipatory bail is that he was posted as Deputy Development Commissioner for a very brief span of almost five months in between March, 2004 to 31st August, 2004 and after more than three years of his transfer from the said post the present case came to be filed and that too without any specific allegation against him. Mr. Ranjan Kumar Jha, learned counsel for the petitioner also submits that the petitioner has exemplary service record and in fact after posting at Madhubani he was also promoted on the higher post. Considering the aforementioned aspect as also the fact that co-accused Bishundeo Prasad Singh and Md. Ghufran Ahmad have already been granted anticipatory bail by this Court by orders dated 22.5.2009 and 23.11.2009 in Cr. Misc. No. 15165 of 2009 and Cr. Misc. No.34530 of 2009 respectively, this Court would also find the petitioner entitled for grant of anticipatory bail. 2 That being so, in the event the petitioner, namely, Lallan Singh would surrender within a period of four weeks, he will be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M. Madhubani in Benipatti (Arer) P.S. Case No.52 of 2007, G.R. No.767 of 2007, subject to the conditions as laid down in section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Abhay Kumar ( Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)