IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.35376 of 2009 MANKESHWAR SINGH @ MANTU SINGH, son of Sri Surendra Prasad Singh, resident of village Pakra, P.S. Naugachhiya, District Bhagalpur Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- Cr.Misc. No.35409 of 2009 MD.MOIN @ MUNNA, son of Md. Azim, resident of village Sabha, P.S. Sakra, District Muzaffarpur Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 14.10.2009 Heard Mr. Bishwanath Singh, learned Senior counsel for the petitioner Md. Moin @ Munna and Mr. Ajay Kumar Thakur, learned counsel for the petitioner Mankeshwar Singh @ Mantu Singh and the counsel for the State. The price of a new Beloro is around Rs. 8 lacs but at least some of the persons make it available in 1/10th of the price. Obviously such vehicles are not purchased from the factory where it is being produced but from the factory fromwhere it is being managed to be supplied by way of stolen article. The petitioner Md. Moin seems to be one who is controlling such affairs of the factory being brain behind the theft of the vehicles and his complicity emerges firstly on the confessional statement of a co- accused Jamiruddin followed by his own 2 Surendra/ confessional statement which leads to recovery of the vehicle, the Beloro in question. It is these circumstance which would disentitle the petitioner Md. Moin @ Munna from claiming privilege of bail for the present. He, however, keeping in view that he is said to be accused only in one case, is given liberty to renew his prayer for bail after completing 15 months of his judicial custody. As with regard to the petitioner Mankeshwar Singh @ Mantu Singh, though his name only emerges in the confessional statement of co-accused (none named in the F.I.R.) he is said to be involved in a number of criminal cases. Mr. Ajay Kumar Thakur, however, by filing a supplementary affidavit has sought to explain his criminal antecedent and therefore, even if the case of the petitioner is taken to be a lower pedestal in comparison to co-accused Md. Moin he would still be required to remain in jail at least for a period of nine months. With the aforementioned observation, both the applications are dismissed for the present. (Mihir Kumar Jha,J.) 3