IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.15229 of 2009 Ranjit Pashwan @ Santosh Pashwan, Son of Mallu Paswan, Resident of Village Nichorkala, P.S. Shahabganj, District Chandauli (U.P.). -------- Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar --------- Opp. Party ----------- 8 4.12.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. Considering the fact that the allegation against the petitioner for an offence under Section 3/4 of the Explosive Substance Act is not new, inasmuch as, earlier he has also been made accused in similar type of cases as would be apparent from the report of criminal antecedent of the petitioner submitted by the Superintendent of Police and the fact that the petitioner gets named in the First Information Report, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. Accordingly, the prayer for bail of the petitioner, namely, Ranjit Pashwan @ Santosh Pashwan is hereby rejected. From the report of the trial court, it would appear that the charges have already been framed against the petitioner on 7.1.2009 and thereafter, despite steps being taken by 2 the trial court for appearance of the witnesses, none has been examined till the date of the submission of the report i.e. 26.10.2009. From the charge-sheet, it would transpire that out of ten witnesses, five of them are police officials and therefore, this Court would direct the Director General of Police and the Superintendent of Police of Kaimur (Bhabua) to ensure that the witnesses named in the First Information Report are produced within two weeks of the receipt of this order by them, failing which they shall be personally answerable for non-production of the witnesses. At the same time, the presence of the remaining five non-official charge- sheet witnesses be obtained by taking all sort of coercive measures by the court below. The trial court must make its endeavor to conclude the trial against the petitioner within a period of nine months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. In the event, the trial of the petitioner will not be concluded in the aforementioned period, the petitioner shall be 3 at liberty initially to move the trial court which then would record reasons for not concluding the trial whereafter only the petitioner may renew his prayer for bail before this Court. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)