IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12439 of 2009 BHANTU KUMAR @ HARENDRA CHAUDHARY Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02/ 20.05.2009 Heard Sri Ghanshyam Tiwary, Advocate for the petitioner and Sri Dasrath Mehta, APP for the State. For an offence under Section 392 of the IPC, which could be tried by a Magistrate of Ist Class, who could be competent to inflict a sentence of three years R.I., the petitioner is in custody since 14.2.2006, i.e., more than three years. The unfortunate part of the case is that not only the Magistrate but the Officer in the rank of Additional Sessions Judge also could not treat it as a serious aspect on confinement of the petitioner without trial and refused the prayer for bail. Let petitioner Bhantu Kumar @ Harendra Chaudhary be released from custody on furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Smt. Sushma Trivedi, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Patna in connection with Kadamkuan P.S. Case No. 127 of 2006. The sureties of the petitioner shall furnish their identity documents to the satisfaction of the court below. DKS/ (Dharnidhar Jha, J.)