IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.42384 of 2011 ====================================================== Bhagwan Gupta @ Bhagwan Prasad Gupta .... .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== 2 14-12-2011 The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offence punishable under Sections 384, 385 and 120(B) of the Indian Penal Code. The accusation of taking money from the beneficiaries of Indira Awas Scheme. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner was neither sanctioning nor disbursing authority and it has become a routine function of the Officers and the Panchayat representatives that they get the cases lodged against some other independent persons in order to save their skin. Other similarly situated person, namely, Onkar Yadav has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court, vide Cr. Misc. No. 21271 of 2011 on 06.07.2011. I find substance in the submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner. Considering the aforesaid submissions, 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 Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sherghati (Gaya), in connection with Barachatti P.S. Case No. 124 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Bhardwaj/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)