IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.39598 of 2009 1. RATAN KUMAR S/O SRI RAM PRASAD MAHTO, R/O VILL-BARDIH, P.S- SIKANDARA, DISTT- JAMUI Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2/ 18/01/2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner apprehends arrest in a police case registered in the year-2008 under Sections-302/34 of Indian Penal Code. The defence is that there is no eye-witness to the assault on the deceased. The petitioner’s sister had married the son of the deceased as far back as- 2005 and there was no justification for the petitioner to assault the deceased three years later. Family members of both sides had filed affidavits that the investigating officer was refusing to record their statements in the case diary, as noticed in the impugned order of rejection. Having considered the facts and circumstances of the case let the petitioner above named surrender before the court below within four weeks when he shall be enlarged on anticipatory bail upon furnishing the bail-bonds of Rs.20,000/- (twenty thousand) along with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, 2 Jamui in connection with Sikandra P.S. Case No.99/2008, subject to the conditions laid down under Section-438(2) Cr.P.C. KC/ ( Navin Sinha, J.)