IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.38370 of 2008 KAMENDRA KUMAR KAMESH Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 4. 5.1.2009 Heard Sri Shakil Ahmad Khan, Senior Advocate for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner is a junior officer in the Education Department and acts as Block Education Extension Officer in Barari, Katihar. The allegation is that he was threatening the deceased as also his wife on account of the lady having preferred a writ petition in order to challenging the panel of prospective candidates to be appointed as Panchayat teachers in a particular block. The annexure to the supplementary affidavit indicates that the petitioner was indeed figuring as one of the respondents in the concerned writ petition. Subsequently, a solitary person who happened to be the nephew of the deceased appears after 65 days of the incident and has supported the participation in conspiracy part of the incident of this petitioner by alleging some act or the other. The contention is that there was no - 2 - reason as to why the witness examined in paragraph 110 of the case diary could not come out at the earliest occasion to tell the truth about the incident to the police. The further contention was that the petitioner had no role to play in the selection process of the candidates for being appointed as Panchayat teachers and he had, on the other hand, pointed out the anomalies in making the appointment. In support of the contention, the attention of the court was drawn to annexure-6 to the supplementary affidavit. Regard being had to the facts of the case and also the fact that one of the similarly situated accused Om Prakash Gupta has been admitted to bail, let the above named petitioner be released from custody on furnishing bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in Barari P.S.case No.81 of 2008. B.Kr. ( Dharnidhar Jha, J. )