IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.42360 of 2009 SUMAN SINGH @ SUMAN KUMAR SUMAN SON OF SRI RAMASHRAY PD.SINGH RESIDENT OF VILLAGE BABHANBIGHA,P.S.BARBIGHA,DISTT.SHEIKHPURA Versus STATE OF BIHAR For the petitioner : Mr.Rana Vikram Singh For the State : Mr.Addl.P.P. ----------- 2/ 11.2.2010 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner apprehends his arrest in a case which has been registered for offences under Sections 379, 504 and some other Sections of the Indian Penal Code and 3(ix) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Informant has given written report to the police that the petitioner came to his house and abused in the name of his caste and demanded Rs.5,000/- by way of extortion. The petitioner is husband of Sarpanch. The present case was registered on 24.9.2009. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the petitioner is Advocate by profession. In an earlier case filed by the present informant one Ganesh Manjhi and others were accused and in that case the petitioner was representing them and the present case has been filed only with a view to immobile and unable him from representing them. Further submission is that no offence under the provisions of Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is attracted against the petitioner because the offence was not committed in public view. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest/surrender within twenty days from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order, the above named petitioner shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger in Barbigha P.S.Case No. 230 of 2009, subject to the conditions as laid down in Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Tahir/- ( Shyam Kishore Sharma, J. )