IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.51816 of 2008 MAHANTH UPENDRA DAS Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- For the petitioner : Mr. Aditya Prakash Sahay, Advocate For the State : Mr. Jharkhandi Upadhaya, A.P.P. --------- 3 9.4.2009 Heard learned counsel for petitioner MAHANTH UPENDRA DAS who is in custody since 21.8.2003 in connection with Dalsinghsarai P.S. Case No. 4 of 2000 registered under sections 302/34 IPC. The petitioner is not named in the FIR but his name cropped up subsequently when witnesses stated before the police in course of investigation that the petitioner was one of the persons who fled away from the P.O. along with the FIR named accused Lalan Chaudhary and at that time the petitioner happened to be armed. It appears from the computer chart annexed by the Stamp Reporter that co-accused Lalan Chaudhary was denied bail vide order dated 7.9.2001 passed in Cr.Misc. No. 23726 of 2001 and subsequently by order dated 27.6.2002 passed in Cr.Misc. No. 14617 of 2002 was enlarged on bail. In that view of the matter the petitioner MAHANTH UPENDRA DAS is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Dalsinghsarai at Samastipur in connection with Dalsinghsarai P.S. Case No. 4 of 2000. The petitioner shall be present on all dates fixed in the case and if he absent from on any date without showing cogent reason the court in seisin of the case shall be at liberty to cancel his bail. Spd/- (Abhijit Sinha, J.)