IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.17496 of 2008 SUNIL KUMAR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 12.5.2008. The petitioner, the Block Development Officer of Murliganj is apprehensive of his arrest in connection with Complaint Case No.127 of 2007 under sections 323, 379, 504/34 I.P.C. and has prayed for pre-arrest bail. The complaint petition at the instance of a busybody claiming to be a social and political activist seeks to allege that due to the acts of omissions and commission by the petitioner in the implementation of Government Schemes the matter was reported to his senior officers and out of the grudge arising therefrom, the petitioner and his henchmen on 23.2.2007 assaulted the complainant near the Block Office, snatched the gold chain from his neck and took away Rs.22,000/- from his pocket. The complaint appears to have been filed five days after the occurrence and there is no plausible explanation therefor. It also appears that the petitioner on an earlier occasion had taken the complainant to task by instituting Murliganj P.S. Case No.19/07 against him. Due regard being had to the facts and the circumstances of the case, in the event of arrest or surrender by the petitioner, Sunil Kumar, in the court below, he shall be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial - 2 - Magistrate, Madhepura in connection with Complaint Case No.127 of 2007 subject to the condition laid down in section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Sanjay/- (Abhijit Sinha,J)