IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.24141 of 2010 RAJ KUMAR CHOUDHARY @ RAJU CHOUDHARY @ RAJO CHOUDHARY & ANR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 29.07.2010. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Sections 448, 147, 148,149, 323, 337, 338,152, 353 and 307 of the I.P.C. It is alleged that Gangia Devi was playing witchcraft on a dead body of a child which was protested by the villagers which resulted into pelting bricks and stones on the police. The petitioner was identified by Chaukidar as one of the members of the mob. The petitioner was named in the F.I.R. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that nine F.I.R. named accused persons with similar allegations have been granted anticipatory bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 16150 of 2010 by a Bench of this Court. The photo copy of the said order is produced before this Court. Let it be kept on record. Considering the fact that similarly situated accused have been granted anticipatory bail and the allegation is general in nature, 2 let the petitioners, namely, Raj Kumar Choudhary @ Raju Choudhary @ Rajo Choudhary and Munni Devi, be released on bail in the event of their arrest or surrender in the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Bakhtiyarpur P.S. Case No. 261 of 2009 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M., Saharsa, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of Cr.P.C. U.K. ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)