IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.29048 of 2008 RAMESH KUMAR @ CHOTU Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02. 26.09.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. Petitioner is an accused under sections 366 and 366A of the Indian Penal Code in Alamganj P S Case No. 24 of 2008. He has been in custody since 22nd of January, 2008 in relation to the case in which as per the FIR he was one of the persons found in the company of one Kiran Kumari who was moved around in the vehicle in the company of this petitioner and was brought to Patna from Gaya. She had apprehension that she was misled and kidnapped for being sold. In this background the petitioner along with others were arrested. Submission of the learned senior counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner is that even according to the FIR there is nothing to show that any force or threat was used against the girl nor was any offence of crime committed against her. The whole circumstance seems a little suspicious and vexatious because on enquiry the police has not been able to identify the place of origin of the girl. Not only this, a similarly situated accused Sudhir Kumar has already been granted bail by a bench of this Court. Keeping the above facts in mind and also the fact that petitioner has been in jail since January, 2008, let petitioner Ramesh Kumar alias Chotu be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.20,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the - 2 - satisfaction of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patnacity, Patna in Alamganj P S Case No. 24 of 2008 subject to the condition that one of the sureties will be executed by the father of the petitioner. rkp (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)