IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.7506 of 2010 1. SATISH SINGH,s/o late Nanku Singh 2. Bimal Singh,s/o Satish Singh 3. Arun Singh,s/o Satish Singh 4. Sk. Equbal @ Md. Equbal,s/o late Sk.Samsul 5. Anadi Singh,s/o late Khoka Singh @ Mohan Singh Petitioners no.1 to 4 are R/v- Benabari, petitioner no.5 of vill.- Maradangi, All are P.S.-Balrampur,District- Katihar. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 03/ 26-03-2010 Heard Mr. Pankaj Kumar Sinha learned counsel appearing for the petitioners and Mr. Murli Dhar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with Balrampur P.S.Case No.86/2009 registered under Sections 406, 420, 467, 468, 120B/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3(1)(xii) of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is submitted by the learned counsel for the petitioners that in view of the ratio decidendi as laid down by this Court in an unreported case of Sajjo and others Vs. The State of Bihar passed in Cr.Misc.No.746 of 2010 and eight analogous cases the provisions of the said Act are inapplicable in the present case. He further submits that the entire occurrence has taken place due to land dispute between the parties. Some of the petitioners are bonafide purchasers of the land in question from the brother of the informant. In the aforesaid background, in the event of 2 arrest/surrender within a period of four weeks from today in Balrampur P.S.Case No.86/2009, the above named petitioners shall be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(rupees ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar, subject to the conditions as laid down under sub-section (2) of Section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. AH/ ( Birendra Prasad Verma, J.)