IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.17525 of 2011 Sahadeo Manjhi & Ors. Versus The State Of Bihar ----------- 02. 28.06.2011 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Sections 147, 323, 341, 380, 448, 504 of the I.P.C. and Section ¾ of Witch Craft Practices Act. The accusation is of making assault on the pretext that complainant’s side used to practice witch craft. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that both sides are neighbours and there was previous enmity between them which led to lodging of the present case. The date of occurrence is of 13.07.2008 and 14.07.2008 for which the complaint was filed on 19.07.2008. The delayed lodging of the complaint clouds the bona fide of the accusation. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners namely 1. Sahadeo Manjhi 2. Sri Kant Manjhi 3. Raj Kumar Manjhi 4. Gauri Devi, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount 2 each to the satisfaction of Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Gaya in connection with Complaint Case No. 1166 of 2008. Shageer ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)