IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12368 of 2011 DINESH PANDEY Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 19.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner being the Mukhiya of Gram Panchayat is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Sections 420, 406, and 409 of the Indian Penal Code. It is alleged that the informant made inquiry on the order of Programme Officer of MANREGA P.S. Kateya, Gopalganj on the directions of the Distrtict Magistrate in which the irregularities to the effect that the job cards issued in the Panchayat were kept by the Mukhiya, the cash payment were made to the labourer taking signature on the withdrawal form and Mukhiya and others used to withdraw the amount. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioner that under the scheme the preservation of the job card is the responsibility of the Panchayat Sewak and Mukhiya makes the registration only on verification of the residency of the beneficiaries. It is further submitted that while consideration of the anticipatory bail to the Bank Manager it has come that the pass- books were being kept by the account holders and the entries were made on their production of their respective pass- book and since the payment is through the bank account of the 2 beneficiaries. There can not be any basis for payment, as alleged, of the cash amount. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely, Dinesh Pandey, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj at Gopalganj, in connection with Kateya P.S. Case No. 26 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Ibrar/- ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)