IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.16172 of 2008 BAMBAM SINGH @ BABAN SINGH @ BAMAN Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 26.8.08 Heard Mr. Rama Kant Sharma for the petitioner, and Mr. Jai Shankar Prasad Singh, learned A.P.P. This is the petitioner’s fifth attempt for grant of bail in S.T. No. 3 of 1999, arising out of Surajgarha P.S. Case No. 269 of 1997 dated 26.11.1997, currently pending in the court of the learned Additional Sessions Judge, F.T.C. No.II, Lakhisarai. This matter was earlier considered on 6.5.2008 and, on the submission of the learned counsel that the petitioner is languishing in jail since 5.4.1999, and there is no chance of its conclusion in near future, report was called for. Learned trial court has forwarded his report dated 26.5.2008, wherein it is stated that the informant had himself not supported his case. He was then in custody. After he was released from jail, he filed an application before the learned trial court that the accused Bambam Singh(the petitioner herein) and others had threatened him with dire consequences if he supports the murder 2 story as given by him in the F.I.R. Out of fear, the informant did not support the prosecution case. It is a case of double murder. The informant thereafter filed an application for his re-examination which was allowed by the learned trial court giving rise to an application in the present case challenging the order of re-examination of the informant. It thus appears to me that the delay in the trial is attributable to Bambam Singh and other accused persons. In that view of the matter, I am not inclined to release the petitioner on bail. It is accordingly rejected. ( S. K. Katriar, J.) Vinay/