IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.28767 of 2008 RAMCHANDRA SINGH Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 25.8.2008 A supplementary affidavit has been filed on behalf of the petitioner. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Special Case No.12/08 arising out of Vigilance P.S. Case No.21/2008 for the alleged offences registered under sections 409, 420, 467, 468, 471, 477A, 109 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code and section 13(2) read with section 13(i)(d) of the Prevention of Corruption Act. It is submitted that the petitioner at the material time was Correspondence Clerk in the Building Construction Department and posted in the office of the S.D.O., Sheikhpura. The allegation is that the petitioner while maintaining the issue register had kept certain entries blank, so that at the appropriate time, the same could be filled up for ulterior design. It is further submitted that as a 2 matter of fact, the issue register used to be kept under the custody of the Accounts Clerk, namely, Prakash Chandra Sinha, which would be evident from perusal of the letter dated 20th of February, 2008 (Annexure 3) written by the District Magistrate, Sheikhpura to the Principal Secretary, Building Construction Department, Bihar, Patna. As such, the petitioner could have no occasion to make such entry. The learned counsel appearing on behalf of the State (Vigilance), on the other hand, submits that the petitioner was a Correspondence Clerk and blank spaces in the issue register were kept at the dictate of the concerned Executive Engineer. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in this case the concerned Executive Engineer has been allowed anticipatory bail by this Court as per the order dated 18.7.2008 passed in Cr.Misc. No.27262 of 2008 annexed with the supplementary affidavit filed today. Considering the submissions, as noticed above, it is directed that petitioner Ramchandra Singh, in the event of his arrest or surrender in connection with Special Case 3 No.12/2008 arising out of Vigilance P.S. Case No.21/2008, within a period of four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to satisfaction of the court of Special Judge, Vigilance-II, Patna, in connection with the aforesaid case, on the conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. PNM (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)