IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.2793 of 2010 1.MANEJAR SAHANI soon of late Bhanu Sahani,r/o Khairimal 2.Ram Bandhu Singh son of Awadh Bihari Singh,r/o Khairi Jagir, 3.Kishore Prasad son of Raghunath Prasad r/o Khairimal, all are under P.S. Pipra, Dist. East Champaran …..Petitioners. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 26.3.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned A.P.P. for the State. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with SC &ST Hajipur P.S. case No. 448 of 2009 dated 30.8.2009, registered under sections 323, 341, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code and 3(i)(X)(iii)(ii) of the SC & ST (POA)Act . Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that in view of ratio decidendi laid down by this court in an unreported case of Sajo and others Vs. State of Bihar Cr. Misc. No. 746 of 2010 and its analogous cases, the provision of SC & ST (POA) Act is inapplicable. He submits that all the offences alleged under the Penal Code are bailable one and entire occurrence seems to have taken place on the question of certain transactions of money. Learned counsel for the State, though opposed the prayer for anticipatory bail, has not disputed the aforesaid position. In that view of the matter, let the above named petitioners in the - 2 - event of their arrest or surrender in the court below within four weeks from today , be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M, Motihari in connection with the above noted case, subject to the conditions laid down under section 438(2) Cr.P.C. (Birendra Prasad Verma, J) M.Rahman