IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR.MISC. NO.23598 OF 2008 SHANKAR YADAV, SON OF KAILASH YADAV, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE CHANDA, POLICE STATION ATHAMALGOLA, DISTRICT PATNA VERSUS THE STATE OF BIHAR ********** 3 07.11.2008 Heard Counsel for the petitioner and the A.P.P. representing the State. The petitioner seeks bail in a case which has been registered under Section 364, 302,201/34 of the Indian Penal Code and 27 of the Arms Act. Six persons, namely, Shashi Kant Yadav, Bechan Yadav, Laxmi Kant Yadav, Harendra Yadav, Bhagwan Ram and Sugriv Yadav are the named accused of the case in which there is allegation that the named accused persons and others took away four persons whose mutilated dead bodies were found subsequently. Submission is that the petitioner is not named in the First Information Report though he is the resident of the village of the named accused persons. FIR named accused Sugriv Yadav has been released on bail vide order dated 16.08.2007 passed in Criminal Misc. No. 31470 of 2007. Bijali Yadav and Manohar Yadav & Sanjay Yadav have also been granted bail vide order dated 03.05.2007 passed in Criminal Misc. Nos. 8532 of 2007 & 54638 of 2006 respectively. FIR named accused Laxmi Kant Yadav 2 has been granted bail by this Court earlier. The petitioner is not named in the First Information Report and some FIR named accused persons has been granted bail. Considering the facts and the circumstances of the case, the petitioner Shankar Yadav is directed to be released on bail in connection with Athmalgola Police Station Case No. 233 of 2001 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh. Anand (Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)