IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.22701 of 2009 Noor Alam, Son of Late Taswar Hussain, Resident of Village Kabilaspur, P.S. Thawe, District Gopalganj. --------- Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar --------- Opp. Party ----------- 3 16.10.2009 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The petitioner, a named accused in a criminal case of the year 2004 has ultimately been nabbed after four years on 17.4.2008. He is also said to have criminal antecedent as would be evident from the report of the criminal antecedent received from the office of the Superintendent of Police, Gopalganj, one of such case is prior to the year 2004 and the other one is of the year 2008 which would again demonstrate the repeated criminal attitude of the petitioner. The petitioner, however, cannot be kept in custody for an indefinite period and therefore, this Court while rejecting the prayer for bail of the petitioner would direct the trial court to ensure that the trial of the petitioner is completed within a period of nine months from today. At the same time, 2 there being two other cases against the petitioner being Majhgarh (Thave) P.S. Case No. 171 of 2000 and Thave P.S. Case No. 34 of 2008 being also triable by the Magistrate, step should be taken for completion of trial in other those two cases also in a space of nine months so that the release of the petitioner on bail after one year may not come as an impediment for completing the trial in any of the three pending cases. With the aforementioned observations and direction, this application is dismissed for the present. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)