IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.13140 of 2008 KEDAR MAHATO & ORS Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02 16.05.2008 Petitioners are in custody since 19.01.2008 in Semra Police Station Police Station Case No. 28 of 2004 instituted under Section 302 and other Sections of the Indian Penal Code along with Section 17 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act. It is alleged that about 30 to 35 persons came in the house of the informant and caught hold of her husband and her Devar and both were dragged out and beaten to death. Those people then left by leaving printed pamphlet written in red ink with slogans “M.C.C. Zindabad”. It appears that petitioner is not named in the F.I.R., they are named long thereafter when the informant is questioned for the third time. Under similar facts one similarly placed accused person Dil Kumar Mahato has already been granted bail by this Court by order dated 17.12.2007 in Cr. Misc. No. 36211 of 2007. In the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioners, Kedar Mahato, Nepali Mahato and Pokhraj Mahato be released on bail - 2 - on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bagaha, District-West Champaran in Semra P.S. Case No. 28 of 2008. Trivedi/ (Navaniti Prasad Singh,J.)