IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.4691 of 2010 PANKAJ SINGH, SON OF LATE GULAB SINGH, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE-MADHOPUR, POLICE STATION-PARBATTA, DISTRICT-KHAGARIA. ………………………………………………….PETITIONER. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR………………….OPPOSITE PARTY. -------- For the Petitioner : Mr. Vivekanand Singh, Advocate. For the State : Mr. Uma Shankar Prasad Singh, A.P.P. -------- 2. 23.2.2010. Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner is an accused in a case registered under Sections 147, 148, 149, 341, 323, 307, 302, 427, 504 of the Indian Penal Code besides Section 27 of the Arms Act. As per the allegation in the First Information Report, at the behest of co-accused, Jawahar Singh, other two co-accused, namely, Suman Singh and Lal Singh, fired upon the brother of the informant causing injury on his chest. He died on account of that injury. Several other persons including this petitioner have also assaulted the - 2 - deceased with lathi and danda. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that of course, during the course of investigation it has come that the petitioner had also fired upon the deceased but the informant being an eye witness had not named him as the assailant of the deceased using fire arms. Thus, the said statement of the some of the witnesses, collected during the course of investigation, appears to be an after thought. Learned counsel for the petitioner also submitted that the co-accused, Jawahar Singh, upon whose orders the two other co-accused persons, namely, Suman Singh and Lal Singh, had fired and the another co-accused, Sugga Singh, had already been granted bail by a Bench of this Court vide order dated 8.1.2010 passed in Criminal Misc. No.45240 of 2009. Learned counsel for the petitioner produces the certified copy of the aforesaid order. Let the same be kept on record. Considering the facts and the circumstances of the case, the petitioner, Pankaj Singh, is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to - 3 - the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Munger, in connection with Bariarpur P.S. Case No.79/2009. P.S. (Dr. Ravi Ranjan,J)