IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.53166 of 2008 BANSHLAL PASWAN Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 18.04.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The petitioner seeks anticipatory bail in the case of the year, 2004 on the ground that he was not aware of the case for a period of four years as he was living out of station. This court considering this ground alone to be sufficient that the petitioner was evading arrest for all these period even he was named in the confessional statement in the year, 2005, would reject the prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner with a direction to the petitioner namely Banshi Lal Paswan to surrender before the Court below within a period of one month from today. The Court below will thereafter examine the prayer for regular bail of the petitioner by also taking into account that the persons having similar allegation including Shatrughan Purbey have already been granted anticipatory bail by an order dated 12.12.2006 in Cr. Misc. No. 36407/06. 2 With the aforesaid observations and directions, this application is dismissed. Bibhash (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)