IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.11268 of 2009 RAVI RANJAN @ BIGAN @ BIG-B @ UPENDRA Son of Shri Uday Singh @ Ashok Singh, resident of Village Jagdishpur, P.S. Masaurhi, District-Patna. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 5 31/8/2009 Heard the parties. Having considered nature of allegations for the offence alleged against the petitioner being sections 399, 402 as also section 307 of the Indian Penal Code, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner for the present because recovery has been made at his instance, i.e, his confessional statement. In that view of the matter, case of the petitioner would not be on the same footing as that of Chhotu Kumar who has been granted bail by order dated 8th May, 2009 in Cr. Misc. No.8198/2009. The additional reasons for the petitioner being not granted bail for the present would be that he has series of criminal case pending against him; at least eleven of them as has been mentioned in the supplementary affidavit. The petitioner, however, has remained in custody for about almost one year and therefore trial court is directed to ensure that trial of the petitioner is expedited and the same is concluded within a period of one year from today. In the event, trial is not concluded the petitioner shall have liberty initially to move the 2 trial court, whereafter trial court shall record reasons for not concluding the trial and only then the petitioner will be at liberty to move this Court. Abhay Kumar (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)