IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.32073 of 2009 SHIV NARAYAN SARAF, S/o Ghunghru Saraf, resident of village Amani Mushari, P.S. Dhamdaha, District Purnea Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 9.9.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the State. The only ground on which the petitioner should not be and is not being granted bail is that he had happily absconded for a period of more than 2½ years. The petitioner was a named accused in the F.I.R. dated 9.3.2006 and yet remained absconding till 27th of October, 2008. His surrender infact was actuated by consideration that the trial of co-accused Sikandar Saraf was gone to end, which it eventually did on 7.11.2008. In that view of the matter, if the petitioner did not co- operate with the investigating agency and/or in the earlier trial undertaken against co- accused he cannot expect for being released on bail for asking. That being so, this Court would reject the prayer for bail of the petitioner with a direction to the court below to 2 ensure that the trial against the petitioner is concluded by October, 2010. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/