IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.19486 of 2011 Ram Chandra Prasad Versus The State Of Bihar ----------- 2 01.07.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Panchayat Mukhiya is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Section 420/34 of the Indian Penal Code Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. During the raid led by District Magistrate, Nalanda, Ration Card and register of distribution of various coupons to be distributed to the beneficiaries to various categories were recovered from the house of the petitioner. It is alleged that the coupons and the ration cards were not distributed for about ten months. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that since the Panchayat Bhawan is situated at a far place from the village, hence, the Executive Committee passed resolution on 16.09.2007 that one of the room provided by Mukhiya (petitioner) will be used 2 as an office of Panchayat Bhawan and accordingly one room of the petitioner was used as Panchayat Bhawan and Panchayat Secretary was custodian of the said documents which alleged to have been seized. The said documents were kept for distribution among the beneficiaries who could not receive. Considering the suspicious nature of accusation and the fact that petitioner has been awarded by the President of India for good performance as Panchayat Representative, let the above named petitioner, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of his 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) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nalanda at Bihar Sharif in connection with Giriak P.S. Case No. 54/2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) 3