IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.3379 of 2011 CHANDRA BHUSHAN KUMAR, S/O LAXMAN MAHTO, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE BIRAKH, P.S. SURSAND, DISTRICT SITAMARHI. ----------- PETITIONER Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 11.03.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Assistant Teacher is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Section 409 of the Indian Penal Code. The accusation is that the informant, being the Block Education Officer, had received information about the transportation of five bags of rice of Mid-day meal of Middle School, Maidan. The informant found the rice kept in the house of Ram Bhagat Panjiyar for sale. Subsequently, Ram Bhagat Panjiyar admitted that rice was kept by this petitioner. It is submitted on behalf of the learned counsel for the petitioner that he is an Assistant Teacher and he was not authorized to handle or keep the grains of Mid-day meal for which headmaster is authorized. 2 The petitioner is ready to deposit Rs. 5,000/- before learned court below which will be invested in some fix deposit scheme which will be subject to the result of the case. Since the petitioner was not authorized to handle the Mid-day meal, 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, Sitamarhi in connection with Sursand P.S. Case No. 120/2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)