IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.47402 of 2008 RAMASHRAYA PRASAD RAM @ RAMASHRAYA RAM @ RAMASHRAY PD.RAI Versus STATE OF BIHAR THRU. VIG. ----------- 2. 03.12.2008 Heard the learned Counsel for the petitioner and the learned counsel for the Vigilance. The petitioner apprehends arrest in a Police case under Sections 409, 420 and other provisions of the Penal Code read with the relevant provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act. The submission is that the petitioner was the Block Supply officer. he has made no interpolations and that supplies have been made by him as per the deposit. Another officer of the Depoartment has been granted anticipatory bail by this Court in Cr. Misc. No. 45267 if 2008. No order granting bail to co-accusaed has been placed before this Court. Nonethe less accepting the submission as correct this Court proceeds on that basis. The allegations are of deposit for upliftment of stocks by the PDS dealers, interpolation in the amount of deposit and subsequent upliftment of grains in excess of original deposits made. The allegations are that this was done with the connivance of the officials of the State authorities concerned in the matter. The amount involved is Rs. 31,87671/-. This was discovered in pursuance of an audit objection as a matter continuing for some time earlier. Considering the seriousness of the allegation eating at the vitals of the nation affecting welfare programme, the fine distinction sought tobe drawn by the learned Counsel for the petitioner that as a government official he shall not be answerable for the viles committed by the PDS dealers, does not impress this Court as the allegations arte one of connivance and the anticipatory bail of co-accused as PDS dealers has already been rejected by this Court in Cr. Misc. Nos. 37616, 39590 and 39938 of 2008. This application is rejected. Snkumar/- (Navin Sinha,J.)