IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.39641 of 2008 RAM RATAN MAHTON & ORS Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- For the petitioners: Mr Ram Naresh Singh For the State: Mr S.B.Rai, A.P.P. ---------- 2 26.11.2008 Heard. Petitioners are ward members. They have not signed the list which records distribution of wheat in course of flood relief. The F.I.R. lodged by the Panchayat Secretary states that such wheat was distributed to persons, who do not belong, on the identification by the petitioners. The nature of the allegation is such, I take that petitioners have been able to make out a case for grant of anticipatory bail. Let petitioners (Ram Ratan Mahton, Ram Binod Paswan, Sita Devi, Usha Devi and Raj Kumar Das), in the event of arrest or surrender within six weeks from today, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs 10,000/ - ( rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in Garhpura P.S. Case no. 55 of 2007 subject to the condition as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. shahid (Barin Ghosh, J) - 2 -