IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.39891 of 2008 1. BIRBAL MEHTA, S/o Late Ram Prasad Mehta, R/o Sultan Pokhar, Ward No. 3, P.O. & P.S. Forbesganj, Distt. – Araria, 2. Pappu Nayak @ Neeraj Nayak, S/o Lakshmi Pd. Nayak, Training School Road, Ward No. 19, Forbesganj, Araria, and 3. Madan Bhagat, S/o Late Gorakh Bhagat, R/o Sadar Road, Ward No. 10, Forbesganj, Araria Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 27.11.2008. Heard. Madan Bhagat is the owner of the shop and has obtained an eviction decree against the informant. Petitioner No. 1, who is Accused No. 1 in the first information report, has entered into an agreement with Madan Bhagat to purchase the said shop. The first information report alleges that Petitioner No. 1 with his associates looted the entire merchandise of the informant that was kept in the shop. The persons accused in the information are not habitual criminals nor do they have any criminal antecedents of being dacoits or even being accused of having committed dacoity in any other case. Taking into account these factors, I allow the application of the petitioners for grant of anticipatory bail. - 2 - In the event of arrest or surrender of the petitioners within six weeks from today, let the petitioners, namely, Birbal Mehta, Pappu Nayak @ Neeraj Nayak and Madan Bhagat be released on bail on their furnishing bonds in the sum of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria, in connection with Forbesganj P.S. Case No. 242/2008, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. dk ( Barin Ghosh, J. )