IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.4676 of 2009 JAI PRAKASH SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR With Cr.Misc. No.722 of 2009 SHIVA JAG PATEL @ SHEO JAG PATEL @ NARAD SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 20.03.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. The case is under Sections 341 and 392 of the Indian Penal Code. The complainant has claimed enmity with these petitioners on the ground of his objection to the coercive attempts made by the petitioners to purchase land of the father of the complainant and has claimed that on the ground of that enmity this offence was committed by the petitioners and others. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the land was purchased from the father of the complainant by the brother of these petitioners long ago and the same was also mutated and the rent is being paid for the same. He submits that - 2 - in fact, a partition was effected between the complainant and his father and the land fell in the share of the father of the complainant in a partition recorded by Lok Adalat. The complainant has filed this false complaint to harass the petitioners with an evil eye on the land. Copies of rent receipts, registered sale deeds and award of Lok Adalat have been annexed with these applications. Learned counsel for the petitioners has drawn attention of this Court to Annexure-6 by which Jai Govind Singh, who is said to have pointed a pistol on the complainant, has been granted bail by this Court. Petitioner Jai Prakash Singh is in custody since 19.1.2009 and Petitioner Shiva Jag Patel @ Sheo Jag Patel @ Narad Singh is in custody since 1.12.2008 Considering the facts and circumstances of the case which indicate the land dispute between the parties from before, these applications are allowed. Let petitioners of both these applications, namely, Jai Prakash Singh and Shiva Jag - 3 - Patel @ Sheo Jag Patel @ Narad Singh, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Sri V.K.Gupta, Judicial Magistrate, Ist Class, Kaimur (Bhabua) in Complaint Case No.639/2006, Tr. No.1076/2008. B.T. (J.N. Singh, J.)