IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.46679 of 2008 RAM BILASH MANJHI @ BILASH MANJHI, S/o Late Kisun Manjhi, Resident of village – Khanpur, Tola Damribigha, P.S. – Wazirganj, District – Gaya. Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 06.02.2009 Heard Sri Onkar Nath, Advocate for the petitioner and Sri Dasrath Mehta, APP for the State. None is named in the FIR of a case under Section 302 of the IPC. The petitioner is in custody because after about six months of the incident a witness, who himself bore criminal antecedent, namely, Satendra Yadav implicated the petitioner projecting himself as an eye witness to the occurrence. The contention is that if the witness Satendra Yadav had identified the petitioner as amongst the criminals on the day of occurrence, i.e., on 2.4.2008 there was no reason that the name of the petitioner should not have appeared in the FIR and also that the witness should have kept silence for six months. Let petitioner Ram Bilash Manjhi @ Bilash Manjhi be released from custody on furnishing a bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the - 2 - like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Atri P.S. Case No. 23 of 2008. DKS/ (Dharnidhar Jha, J.)