IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.44264 of 2010 KRISHNA NANDAN PRASAD, SON OF SRI CHOTAN PRASAD, RESIDENT OF STADIUM ROAD, NAWADA, P.S. NAWADA, DISTRICT NAWADA --- PETITIONER Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR --- OPPOSITE PARTY ----------- 2 26.3.2011 The petitioner is a junior engineer in the R.E.O. Department and has been made accused in a case under Sections 468, 471, 420, 120(B), 467 and 409 of the Indian Penal Code. A complaint has been filed by two private persons who were supposedly appointed as Mates to perform works for clearing the ‘Jamo Aahar’ and ‘Barki Pyne’. It is alleged that the complainant and one other were not paid their due labour. It is also alleged that a forged muster-roll was prepared and presented in the department. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the department has not found any illegality and irregularity in the work performed by the petitioner or the document presented by him. Counsel for the informant on the other hand submits that the petitioner was the Incharge of the work and he has prepared 2 false documents in order to misappropriate government money. Such matters would have enquired into by the government and if there was any complaint against the petitioner, the complainant could have approached the department with a complaint. Be that as it may, the petitioner Krishna Nandan Prasad is directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender within a period of six weeks in connection with Narhat P.S. Case No. 48 of 2010 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada, subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Sanjay ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)