IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.18444 of 2007 MADAN LAL AGRAWAL Versus STATE OF BIHAR AND ANOTHER ----------- 3. 19.9.2008. Heard Mr. N.K. Agrawal, Senior Advocate, the learned counsel for the petitioner, Mr. Anil Prasad Singh, the learned counsel for O.P. No.2 and the learned A.P.P. for the State. The petitioner alongwith others has been made to figure as accused in Forbesganj P.S. Case No.220 of 2002 registered under Sections 467, 468, 471, 420/34 I.P.C. and the cognizance was taken therein under Sections 147, 323, 341, 468, 467 I.P.C against all the accused including the petitioner by the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Araria on 20.1.2007. The submission advanced by the learned counsel for the petitioner is that he only happens to be the attesting witness of the sale deed executed by Ashok Kumar Agrawal, the registered power of Attorney Holder on behalf of the informant, Suresh Kumar Bayawala in favour of Sushila Ben Patel and is unnecessarily being harassed. The learned counsel for O.P. No.2 admits that the petitioner is a mere attesting witness of the sale deed. In that view of the matter, the criminal proceeding, so far as the petitioner only is concerned, is hereby quashed and the application is allowed. P.S. (Abhijit Sinha,J)