Mridula Mishra and Dharnidhar Jha JJ.

1. These matters have been referred by Honble Single Judge, for deciding the issue, that if the previous anticipatory bail order was for a limited period till submission of the charge-sheet and the accused after grant of anticipatory bail has surrendered before the Court for furnishing bail bond, whether in such cases on submission of charge-sheet, second anticipatory bail application is maintainable or the applicant will have to surrender and obtain an order of bail under Sections 437 or 439 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. The Single Judge has referred these matters in view of divergent opinion among the Judges about the maintainability of the second anticipatory bail application in such circumstance.

2. Petitioners in these applications were granted anticipatory bail till submission of the charge-sheet. Subsequently when the charge-sheet was submitted, again they filed application for grant of anticipatory bail, which gave rise to question whether in terms of previous order, they are required to appear and surrender before the Court below for seeking regular bail or their prayer for grant of anticipatory baii on the second occasio