IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.8342 of 2009 SATENDRA KUMAR, S/O CHANDESHWAR SHARMA, RESIDENT OF VILLAGE-NARDIGNAJ BAZAR, P.S. NARDIGANJ, DISTRICT-NAWADAH. ..................PETITIONER Versus STATE OF BIHAR .............. OPPOSITE PARTY ----------- 02/ 08.04.2009 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in connection with Nardignaj P.S. Case No. 52/2008 for the alleged offences registered under Sections 341, 323, 384, 307, 379, 504/34 of the Indian Penal Code. The allegation against the petitioner is of making the demand from the informant who is a dealer of the Public Distribution System. It has further alleged that the petitioner along with the co- accused who happens to be the father assaulted the informant. Further allegation is that co-accused Chandeshwar Sharma took away Rs. 5,000/- from the possession of the informant. Learned counsel submits that on perusal of the Annexures annexed to the application, it would appear that the people of the locality as well as the petitioner was making complaint against the informant with regard to the distribution of the articles and as such the informant has a grudge against the petitioner who has implicated him. The supplementary affidavit shows that the petitioner has got clean antecedent and is not involved in any case - 2 - and as a matter of fact since the petitioner who although is intended to raising and highlighting the misdeeds of the informant along with the other villagers has filed a case. The learned A.P.P. opposes the prayer for bail and submits that the allegation against the petitioner is serious in nature and as such he is not entitled to bail even then the co-accused has been allowed anticipatory bail. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let petitioner, Satendra Kumar in the event of his arrest or surrender in the connection with Nardiganj P.S. Case No. 52/2008, within a period of four weeks’ from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawadah, in connection with the aforesaid case, on the conditions mentioned in Sub-Section (2) of Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. S.Sb/- (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)