IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.45369 of 2008 MAHADEV PANDIT Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 26/11/2008 Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. Earlier prayer for bail of the petitioner was rejected on 8.5.2008 in Cr. Misc. No. 5496 of 2008. This Court, however, had given liberty in the said order to the petitioner to renew his prayer after completing one year in judicial custody. Mr. Raju Giri, counsel appearing on behalf of the petitioner would submit that the petitioner is in judicial custody since 25.8.2007, a fact which has also been noted in the earlier order of this Court dated 8.5.2008. Considering the fact that the petitioner is an accused under section 307 of the Indian Penal Code and other allied offence, and the petitioner has remained in custody for more than 15 months, the petitioner, namely, Mahadev Pandit is directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten 2 thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna, in Rajivnagar P.S. Case No. 60 of 2007. One of the sureties, however, must be his close family members. (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.) Abhay Kumar