IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.10283 of 2011 1. RAMANAND SAH SON OF LATE BHARATH SAH. 2. RDHA MOHAN SAH SON OF LATE BHARATH SAH. 3. LALBABU SAH SON OF LATE BHARATH SAH. 4. MANOJ SAH SON OF LAL BAHADUR SAH. 5. ASHOK SAH SON OF LAL BAHADUR SAH. 6. ARTI KUMARI DAUGHTER OF RADHA MOHAN SAH. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 20.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners being the agnates of the informant are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Sections 447, 341, 323, 379 and 504 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3/4 of the Prevention of Witch Practices Act. The accusations are of making assault, committing theft and abusing the informant for practicing witch craft. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that the occurrence took place on 17.011.2010 where as, the F.I.R. was registered on 05.12.2010 and earlier also, with similar accusation, the informant side lodged the case against the petitioners, in which petitioners are on bail. 2 Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bettiah, West Champaran in connection with Gopalpur P.S. Case No. 146/2010, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)