IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR.MISC. NO.33719 OF 2009 1. ARUN KUMAR, SON OF LATE BALDEO MAHTO 2. MURARI KUMAR @ BIBEKANAND, SON OF LATE LALA MAHTO BOTH RESIDENT OF VILLAGE RAIPUR KOYALBIGHA, POLICE STATION THATTHARI, DISTRICT NALANDA VERSUS THE STATE OF BIHAR *********** 2 07/11/2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners and the A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case under Sections 420/34 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 3(x) of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act The petitioners owned a Photostat shop and it is alleged that the villagers had given them Rs. 100/- each for preparation of affidavits showing that the villagers and the informant belong to the Mahadalit category. Later, the villagers came to know that no affidavit has filed. It is submitted subsequently that the informant has returned the money, but after a petition was filed before the C.O. who has instituted this case. Learned Counsel for the petitioners submits that no case under the provisions of the SC & ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is made out against the petitioners. Be that as it may, the above named - 2 - petitioners are directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest/surrender before the Court below within a period of six weeks from today in Tharthari Police Station Case No. 59 of 2009 on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hilsa (Nalanda) subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438 (2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Anand ( Sheema Ali Khan, J.)