IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.18831 of 2009 RATAN PASWAN S/o Late Modi Paswan resident of Village Budh Nagar (Bharat Khand) P.S. Parbatta Dist. Khagaria Petitioner Versus STATE OF BIHAR Opp. Party ----------- For the petitioner: Kumari Amrita For the State: Mr Jay Shankar Prasad, APP ----------- 02 25.05.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner has been made accused in Pasraha P.S. case no. 20/2008 registered under section 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code. According to the first information report informant’s mother had given some amount to the petitioner and some co-accused. She was called by the petitioner and others thereafter. Subsequently dead body of the mother of the informant was found and first information report was lodged. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the doctor has not found any external injury upon the body of the deceased. Further submission is that similarly situated co-accused Subodh Das has been granted bail by a Bench of this court by order dated 17.3.2009 which has been brought on record as annexure 2 to this petition. Petitioner is said to be in jail custody since 22.2.2009. Having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case the petitioner (Ratan Paswan) is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs 10,000-/ with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Khagaria in Pasraha P.S.Case no. 20 of 2008. shahid (Dr Ravi Ranjan, J) - 2 -