ORDER

2.5.2007 — Heard Mr. S. N. Mohapatra, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. D. K. Mohapatra, learned counsel for the Vigilance Department.

This application has been filed by the petitioner for grant of anticipatory bail under Section 438, Cr.P.C.

It appears from the record that two vigilance cases have been registered against the petitioner, one being for illegal sanction of loans as President of Baripada Urban Co-operative Bank Ltd. and the other for giving direct appointments to certain employees in the said Bank. The said cases have been numbered as Balasore Vigilance P.S.Case No. 35 of 2005 and 36 of 2005 corre¬sponding to Vigilance Cases of even number in the Court of the learned Vigilance Judge-cum-Chief Judicial Magistrate, Balasore. The petitioner was before this Court in BLAPL No. 7299 of 2005 in respect Vigilance P.S.Case No. 35 of 2005. This Court by an elaborate order dated 19.9.2005 discussing the materials avail¬able and other submissions made by the respective counsel for the parties, holding that the petitioner is a sitting M.L.A. and if he is arrested, his reputation in the State, particularly in his Constituency, shall be tarnished and there is also l