IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.35123 of 2008 RAMA KANT PANDEY Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 22.09.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. A supplementary affidavit has been filed on behalf of the petitioner. Petitioner is a Junior Engineer who is apprehending his arrest in connection with Jankinagar P.S. Case No. 56 of 2008 an accused in a case registered for the offences under Sections 3 (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is submitted that the petitioner is a Junior Engineer and he carried out the construction of the tank in question after the Map was sanctioned by the Competent Authority on Gair Majarua Aam Land by the side of the named accused in the FIR. It is further submitted that there is no absolute ingredients of offences for attracting the provision of aforesaid SC/ST Act. It is further submitted that one of the co-accused namely, Manoj Yadav has been granted bail by order dated 29.08.2008 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 33073 of 2008. Having considered the submissions, as noticed above, and in the facts and circumstances of the - 2 - case, it is directed that in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from today, the petitioner, namely, Rama Kant Pandey be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea in connection with Jankinagar P.S. Case No. 56 of 2008 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Jagdish/- (Shailesh Kumar Sinha,J)