IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.7448 of 2008 SURENDRA PANDEY Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 9.5.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner prays for anticipatory bail in a complaint case filed under Sections 109, 120-B, 420/467/468/384 of the Indian Penal Code, in which cognizance has been taken under Section 120-B and 420 of the Indian Penal Code only. The allegation in the complaint is that the petitioner had without any authority received the authority slip of the G.P.F. account of the petitioner on 17.4.2006 from the Office of the District Provident Fund Officer, Motihari, but thereafter he demanded Rs. 7,000/- for handing over the same to the complainant and only on fulfilment of such demand, the authority slip was handed over to the complainant on 15.7.2006. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is a retired teacher like the complainant and it was only in good faith, when he went to the office of the District Provident Fund Officer, on finding that the authority slip of the complainant is ready, he received the same on 14.7.2006 which is also evident from the Peon Book (Annexure-3) of the District Provident Fund office. It is, thus, submitted that on the very next day the petitioner admittedly handed over the said authority slip to the complainant and thus a totally false case, of having kept the same with him for three months and thereafter 2 handed it over to the complainant after receiving amount demanded, was filed. On a consideration of the facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that the petitioner ( Surendra Pandey ) in the event of his arrest/ surrender in the court below within four weeks from today shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Subdivisional Judicial Magistrate, Sikrahana at Motihari in connection with Complaint Case No. 404 of 2006, Trial No.2149/2007, subject to the other applicable conditions laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Cr.P.C. VPS ( Ramesh Kumar Datta,J.)