IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR.MISC. NO.51271 OF 2008 KAMALA KANT THAKUR, SON OF LATE JAY KUMAR THAKUR, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE URAIN, POLICE STATION BENIPATTI, DISTRICT MADHUBANI VERSUS STATE OF BIHAR ****** 2 02.02.2009 Heard Counsel for the petitioner and the A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioner is seeking bail in a case under Sections 408 & 171 (1) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 32 of the Representation of Peoples Act, 1950. The allegation is that the petitioner was entrusted with some work for revising the voters’ list and the materials supplied to him was not returned in the concerned Office. Learned Counsel for the petitioner refers to Annexure-2 which is the death certificate of the father of the petitioner showing that he died on 18.08.2008 and submits that the petitioner performed the last rites of his father and therefore, he was not able to return the documents within the time allotted which was 29th August, 2008. Considering the submissions advanced on behalf of the petitioner, I direct that the petitioner Kamala Kant Thakur should be released on 2 anticipatory bail in the event of arrest/surrender before the Court below within a period of six weeks from today in Phulparas Police Station Case No. 204 of 2008 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jhanjharpur, Madhubani subject to the condition that he should present himself before the concerned authority and return the documents that are in his custody. Anand ( Sheema Ali Khan, J. )