IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.15267 of 2009 BABLU TANTI S/O TULESHWAR TANTI R/O VILLAGE BALUGHAT PS- SULTANGANJ, DISTT- BHAGALPUR— -------------------------------PETITIONER Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR----------OPPOSITE PARTY ----------- 2 7.8.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. Petitioner is in custody since 8.7.2008 in relation to Sultanganj P.S. Case No. 117 of 2008 which was instituted for the offence under sections 25 (1-b) A and 26(iii) of the Arms Act. As per the prosecution story the Officer Incharge, Sultanganj stated that on getting information, they reached the place where three persons had assembled under suspicious circumstance. On seeing the police party the accused persons started to flee and, on chase, the petitioner who was one of them, was caught and one pistol with a live cartridge was recovered from his possession. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he does not have a criminal history. It is his first offence and for this he has remained in custody for a long time. Taking the above circumstances and period spent in custody by him, let the petitioner, namely, Bablu Tanti be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rs. Twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri N. B. Lal, Judicial Magistrate, 1st class, Bhagalpur in connection with Sultanganj P.S. Case No. 117 of - 2 - 2008. One of the sureties will be executed by the father, namely, Tuleshwar Tanti of the petitioner on due identification by the trial court. RPS (Ajay Kumar Tripathi,J.)