IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.53162 of 2008 MAHENDRA NARAIN MANAL, son of Nak Chedi Mandal, village Hatwariya, PS Pipra, Dist. Supaul, presently Junior Engineer, N.R.E.P., Kumar Khand Division, Dist. Saharsa .. Petitioner. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 12.2.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the Vigilance Department. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case under sections 5(1)(d) and 5(2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act and sections 120B, 409 and 420 of the Penal Code. The F.I.R. was instituted in the year, 1982 against the Executive Engineer alleging that he had withdrawn Rs.67 lakhs and odd from the Government exchequer. The petitioner is a Junior Engineer and cognizance was taken against him on 24.4.2007. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the State Government had rejected the application for grant of sanction vide Annexure 2. It is further submitted that similarly situated Junior Engineers have been granted bail by this court vide Cr. Misc. No. 2946 of 1983 and Cr. Misc. No. 12654 of 1994 on 15.9.1994. Considering the aforesaid facts the petitioner, in the event of his arrest or surrender within six weeks, is directed to be released on anticipatory bail in Vigilance PS case No. 01/1983, corresponding to Special Case No. 18/1992, on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Special Judge, Vigilance I, Patna subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. with the 2 condition that the petitioner should cooperate during the trial of the case. haque (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)