IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12376 of 2010 MITHILESH KUMAR SINGH . Versus STATE OF BIHAR THRU.VIG. . ----------- 2 17.5.2010 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel appearing for the Vigilance. Petitioner is apprehending arrest in connection with Vigilance P.S. case No. 46 of 1991 for offences under Sections 120B,420,406,468,471,477A of the Indian Penal Code and under Section 5(2) r/w, 5(1) (d) Prevention of Corruption Act, 1947 corresponding to Section 13(2) r/w 13(d) of Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The prosecution case relates to sinking of boring pipe for irrigation purposes. As per allegation without sinking the pipe in the land, petitioner a Junior Engineer, in collusion with Baleshwar Prasad Singh and Umesh Singh, misappropriated Rs. 1232. Counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner was not connected with the Project, but on the basis of a chit of paper, his name has been implicated. The case instituted in 1991 is still under investigation. 2 Considering these facts, prayer for anticipatory bail on behalf of Mithilesh Kumar Singh is allowed. In the event of his arrest/surrender within four weeks from today in the Court of Special Judge Vigilance-I, Patna, in connection with Special Case No. 81/1991 arising out of Vigilance P.s. case No. 46 of 1991, petitioner above named shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the aforesaid Court in connection with aforementioned case, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. (Mridula Mishra,J.) A.Kumar