IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.43406 of 2008 VIJAY KUMAR VERMA Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 13.01.2009 Heard Sri Amish Kumar, Advocate for the petitioner and Sri Dasrath Mehta, APP for the State. It is a case relating to extremist violence in which not only lives were lost but properties were also consigned to flames by utilizing as crude a weapon as petrol bombs exploded for the purposes of arson. In the light of burning vehicles and other assets, the informant identified three persons including the present petitioner and found him armed with as deadly a weapon as an AK – 47 rifle. There was death of five persons. The death and the act was perpetrated only because the petitioner claimed prosecuting an ideology which was not acceptable to the dead persons or his relatives or because the petitioner was not accepting the administrative set up and the rule of law. When one is not accepting the rule of law, he could not be given protection of same rule of law. The petition is dismissed. It is contended that the petitioner is in custody since - 2 - 1.2.2008 and the trial has started, but the witnesses are not being examined. The learned trial Judge, i.e., Ist Additional Sessions Judge, Aurangabad could consider that aspect of the matter and expedite the hearing if his schedule so permits him. DKS/ (Dharnidhar Jha, J.)