IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.16947 of 2009 BIRENDRA MANDAL Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 03. 24.08.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. Petitioner has been sent to judicial custody for an offence under section 33 of the Forest Act when C.C. Case No. 189 of 2003 was lodged against him for chopping down certain sisam trees. Submission is that petitioner has no criminal antecedent and he has remained in custody for long time and looking at the punishment for indiscretion petitioner should be granted privilege of bail. Let petitioner Birendra Mandal be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10, 000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria in C. C. Case No. 189 of 2003 subject to the direction that one of the sureties will be executed by the close relation of the petitioner and that he shall co-operate in the trial of the case. rkp (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)