IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.1912 of 2010 SANTOSH KUMAR CHOUBEY, son of late Paras Nath Choubey, Resident of village Sarenja, P.S. Rajpur, District Buxar Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 22.2.2010 Heard counsel for the petitioner and the counsel for the State. The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner for offence u/s 307 I.P.C. is sought to be pressed on the ground that the informant herself on 7.9.2009 i.e. after more than two months had filed an application wherein it was stated by her that the petitioner had no role in the alleged occurrence. It has to be noted that initially the F.I.R. was filed against unknown person and the name of the petitioner had transpired in course of investigation in the statement of two persons in paragraphs 37 and 38 of the case diary, namely, Sanjay Singh and Anwar Mian who claimed to have identified the petitioner to have thrown acid on the face of the informant. In that view of the matter, if some affidavit or some petition is filed by the informant the same will have no evidentiary value till such statement is 2 recorded on oath in course of deposition of the informant. In any event such heinous offence will not vouchsafe for grant of anticipatory bail. The prayer for anticipatory bail of the petitioner is, accordingly, rejected. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) Surendra/