IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.40164 of 2009 Ranjeet Kumar, Son of Sri Awadhesh Kumar Thakur, Residnet of Mohalla Ashram Road, Araria, P.S. Araria, Distt. Araria. -------- Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar ------ Opp. Party ----------- 2 25.11.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The petitioner faces prosecution for an offence under Section 420 and other allied offences of the Indian Penal Code and it is said that the petitioner was an imposter who was pretending to be a member of a vigilance team of the Bihar State Electricity Board before the informant and other officials of the Board at Purnea. Learned counsel for the petitioner was emphatic as with regard to the discrepancy in the search and seizure and he had also gone to doubt the entire prosecution story by taking a plea that the whole case was a framed one. Learned counsel for the petitioner would further rely on the fact that other three co- accused persons were granted bail by the Sessions Judge and therefore, the petitioner would also deserve to be released on bail. This Court would find that the Assistant 2 Engineer of the Board, who is the informant in this case, had no animosity with the petitioner and he had only disclosed what was faced by him. That apart, the mentioning of the case number in the seizure list will not go to make the same suspicious specially when there are independent witnesses to the said seizure list. The cases of the other co- accused has also been distinguished by the court below in the impugned order and therefore, when this Court would find that it was the petitioner who was found to have a fake identity card for imposing himself as a member of the vigilance squad, his involvement in the alleged offence cannot be ruled out altogether. This Court thus would not be inclined to direct for release of the petitioner on bail for the present at least till he would complete his judicial custody for a period of six months. That being so, the prayer for bail of the petitioner, namely, Ranjeet Kumar is hereby rejected. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)