IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.11672 of 2009 1. SUSHIL KUMAR SUDHA, S/o-Ram Kumar Singh, Assistant Clerk of Kursakanta Anchal, P.S.-Kursakanta, District-Araria, recently posted as Clerk in Forbesganj Block, P.S.-Forbesganj, District-Araria. 2. DEVENDRA KUMAR JHA, S/o-Bhawanand Jha, Head Clerk Anchal Kursakanta, District-Araria, recently posted as Clerk in Sikty Anchal, P.S.-Sikty, District-Araria. ……..Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar …….Opposite Party. ----------- 03. 20.07.2009 Petitioners apprehend their arrest in Kursakanta P.S. Case No. 113 of 2008 instituted under Section 406, 409 of the Indian Penal Code for allegedly being responsible for disappearance of records of proceedings in B.T. Act case. A case has been lodged at the instance of the Circle Officer, Kursakanta alleging that records of one particular case was found missing and petitioners who had been transferred out of Circle Office could be responsible for the same. Petitioners on the other hand submit that when they took charge they were not given charge of the file in question. It is they who reported the file missing. They have been transferred from the Circle Office. They had noting to do with this case which was disposed of much before they joined that Office. In the facts and circumstances stated above and - 2 - till submission of the charge sheet, let the petitioners namely 1. Sushil Kumar Sudha 2. Devendra Kumar Jha, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of four weeks from today, be released on Anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in connection with Kursakanta P.S. Case No. 113 of 2008 corresponding to G.R. No. 2325/08 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr. P.C. Shageer (Navaniti Prasad Singh, J)