IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr. Misc. No.33131 of 2010 1. RAKESH KUMAR S/O KULDEEP MANDAL 2. KULDEEP MANDAL S/O LATE MOTI MANDAL BOTH RESIDENTS OF VILLAGE- DURGA ASTHAN MAHESHKHUNT, P.S.- MAHESHKHUNT, DISTRICT- KHAGARIA Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 09-09-2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and learned counsel for the State. It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioners that the present case has been lodged with ulterior motives against petitioner no.2, who is admittedly landlord of the informant, and his son petitioner no.1 as well as against his son-in-law who is not named in the FIR. According to learned counsel for the petitioners the alleged utterances were obviously inside the house of the informant which was not a public place and the informant has alleged that her belongings were thrown out but in the latter part of the FIR she has admitted that she is living in the same house and spent night there. It has further been submitted that no case under section Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is made out because utterances were never in public place and the truthfulness 2 of other allegations is doubtful because her first version given at Maheshkhunt police station has not been made public. Considering all the facts and circumstances, this application for anticipatory bail is disposed of with a direction that if the petitioners, namely, 1.Rakesh Kumar and 2. Kuldeep Mandal surrender within six week in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Khagaria in connection with Begusarai Harijan PS case no. 159/2010 in that event, they shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 7,000/- (seven thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Khagaria. BKS/- (Shiva Kirti Singh, J.)