IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.10383 of 2008 PRAMOD DAS @ PRAMOD KUMAR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 1.5.2008 The petitioner apprehends his arrest in Madhepura (Ghailad) P.S. Case No. 296 of 2007 under Sections 420, 467/34 of the Indian Penal Code. Heard. The F.I.R. mentions the general allegation that the informant had applied for the post of “teacher” in Chhiti Punchayat and that petitioner who was a Punchayat Sewak had demanded Rs.90,000/- as bribe for informant’s selection to the post and that when money was paid, one another person, who was inferior in merit was selected in his place. The learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the selection committee comprises five persons, out of which one of them was the petitioner. Further submission is that the selection process was conducted by all the members and it was according to the rule and that when the informant was not selected he leveled baseless allegation against the petitioner. In the facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks, the petitioner, Pramod Das @ Pramod Kumar is admitted to anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhepura, in Madhepura (Ghailad) P.S. Case No. 296 of - 2 - 2007 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (C. M. Prasad, J.) Ravi/-