IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.43955 of 2008 1. JALESHWAR RAI 2. RAM SURAT RAI 3. LALBABU RAI 4. HARENDRA RAI 5. MANIA DEVI 6. MAHINDER RAI 7. RAJO DEVI 8. BULKI BALI @ SUNDERNAMA BALI 9. TARA DEVI 10. SHANTI DEVI 11. SITA RAM SAHNI 12. RAM SEVAK RAI 13. KAPIL RAI @ KAPILDEO RAI 14. FUL KUMARI DEVI 15. HARDEO RAI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2/ 24/11/2008. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that petitioner No.1 has been taken into custody during the pendency of this application. As such, the application has become infructuous. It is accordingly dismissed with regard to petitioner No.1. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The petitioners apprehend arrest in a complaint case under Sections- 458, 380 and 504/34 of I.P.C. sent for investigation under Section-156(3) of Cr.P.C., and 3(X) of S.C./S.T. (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The submission is that the allegations are omnibus for the petitioners being witnesses in the - 2 - murder case against the husband of the informant. Insofar as the latter Act is concerned, as per allegations, the occurrence is stated to have taken place not in a place of public view, but at the house of the informant. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioners 2 to 15 above named surrender before the court below within four weeks when they shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail upon furnishing the bail-bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) each along with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Sitamarhi in Piprahi P.S. Case No.04/08, arising out of Complaint Case No.C-1-125/08, subject to the conditions laid down under Section-438(2) Cr.P.C. KC ( Navin Sinha, J )