IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.36151 of 2009 Pankaj Kumar S/O Late Bhuneshwar Mahto R/O Pokharia, P.S.- Town, Distt.- Begusarai. ----------- Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar --------- Opp. Party ----------- 2 4.11.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. True it is that the petitioner has not been named in the First Information Report nor even a finger of suspicion has been pointed towards him in the detailed version of the informant, wife of the deceased, but then, the complicity of the petitioner seems to have surfaced in course of investigation on the basis of some understanding/agreement between Ranjit Sahani, the main accused and the petitioner relating to some financial deal with the informant. The revealing feature, however, is that Ranjit Sahani on arrest has been interrogated and though he had named other persons to have played role in the occurrence, he does not name the petitioner. The petitioner, therefore, is only said to be one of the associates or involved in the planning of doing away with the life of deceased. These circumstances may definitely 2 make him liable for being put on trial but then there being nothing directly against him to have played role in the alleged occurrence he will be entitled for release on bail. That being so, the petitioner, namely, Pankaj Kumar is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Muffasil P.S. Case No. 24 of 2009. It is, however, made clear that one of the bailors must be either of his parents or wife of the petitioner and the petitioner shall remain present regularly and punctually in course of trial and his absence even on two consecutive dates shall entail consequence of cancellation of his present bail. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)