IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.37809 of 2008 1. URNI DEVI wife of Sarowar Sahni 2. MALA DEVI wife of Vijai Sahni both resident of village Rajoura, P.S.- Sahebpur Kamal, District- Begusarai 3. SHEELA DEVI wife of Dinesh Sahni Ward Member of Ward No.4, Gram Panchayat Raj Bishnupur, Ashok, P.S.-Sahebpur, District- Begusarai Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 27.11.2008 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. Petitioners are accused for the offence under sections 467, 468, 476, 420 & 120B of the Indian Penal Code. The allegation is that the petitioners had challenged the election of the informant as Secretary of the said Society alleging that he won the election on the basis of the voter list containing the name of dead persons. The informant lodged the case against these petitioners that the allegation made in the election petition was not correct since in the voter list almost all persons were alive, however in course of investigation it came that only three persons were alive and rest were dead. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the election petition filed by these petitioners along with co-accused was perfectly correct and the allegations - 2 - were true that almost all the persons of the voter list were dead. Learned Addl. P.P. appearing for the State submits that the petitioners were also applicant in the said election petition challenging the allegation of the informant as Secretary of the said Society. Having considered the submissions, as noticed above, and in the facts and circumstances of the case, it is directed that in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from today, the petitioners, above named, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai, in connection with Sahebpur Kamal P.S.Case No. 20 of 2008 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Manish/- ( Shailesh Kumar Sinha,J.)