IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.19564 of 2009 SUNIL JAIN @ SUNIL KUMAR JAIN S/o Shri Shyam Sunder Jain resident of Kuan Gali Sujaganj P.S. Kotwali Dist. Bhagalpur Versus Petitioner STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 28.05.2009 Heard learned counsel for the parties. In 1991Gaya Civil Lines P.S. Case no.343 of 1991 was instituted under sections 461 and 379 of the Indian Penal Code for alleged theft of statutory sale tax form from the sales tax office there and after almost two decades the petitioner being sought to be arrested inasmuch as it is alleged that one of the stolen statutory form being Form – F which is required to be issued in terms of the Central Sales Tax Act issued by the dealer receiving goods otherwise than by sale of goods from the outside the State which is a form which has been stolen. On behalf of the petitioner, it is submitted that transaction as mentioned in that form was of 17 years back but for that period the petitioner had paid entire sale tax in receipt of all consignments received from the said outside dealer how and for what purpose the outside dealer what the said firm inserted petitioner’s name therein can not be explained at this distinated point of time. Be that as it may, in the events of arrest or surrender before the court below within four weeks from today, the petitioner Sunil Jain @ Sunil Kumar Jain shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in Gaya Civil - 2 - Lines P.S. Case no. 343 of 1991 subject to the condition as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. shahid (Navaniti Prasad Singh , J)