IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR.MISC. NO.49144 OF 2008 HARENDRA PRASAD SINGH, SON OF LATE RAGHUNATH SINGH, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE SEMRI, POLICE STATION MASRAK, DISTRICT SARAN AT CHAPRA, SALES MAN, BIHAR STATE FOOD CORPORATION, BETTIAH VERSUS STATE OF BIHAR ******* 2 09.01.2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is accused in a case under Sections 467, 468, 471, 472, 420, 421 & 120B of the Indian Penal Code and Section 7 of the Essential Commodities Act. The petitioner is an employee of the Bihar State Food Corporation. Upon admitting all the facts, it appears that the Food Corporation of India has released 1000 bags of rice to be transported to the State Food Corporation. On 03.06.2008, two trucks were seized in front of the godown of the State Food Corporation and on that basis the First Information Report has been lodged. Learned Counsel for the petitioner submits that Annexure-2 which is part of the First Information Report would indicate that the Food Corporation of India has released 1000 bags of rice and that the transportation was being made on 2 31.05.2008. It is submitted that prima facie it appears that there is no allegation of diverting the rice or of misusing the funds of the State Food Corporation. It is submitted that all these facts can be verified and considered by the appropriate authority during final hearing of this case. Be that as it may, the petitioner Harendra Prasad Singh is directed to be released on bail in the event of arrest/surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today in Bettiah (Mufassil) Police Station Case No. 84 of 2008 on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Anand ( Sheema Ali Khan, J. )