IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.29925 of 2009 MANSOOR ALI Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 04. 24.11.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the A.P.P. for the State. The case relates to mass murder of eight people by a crowd of almost 300 to 400 people in discriminate firing leading to death of eight persons. The case in question is Manihari P.S. Case No. 12 of 2006 which was registered under various Sections including Section 323, 324, 326, 302 read with 201 of the Indian Penal Code as well as 27 of the Arms Act. Submission of the learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner has not been named in the First Information Report neither any witness has seen him participating in such crime. Some accused persons in their confession had named this petitioner to be also part and parcel of the crowd which indulged in the killing of eight persons. Participation of the petitioner is a little hazy in terms of evidence which has come during investigation. It is further submitted that one of the persons who has named the petitioner in his confessional statement has been enlarged on bail by this Court by order passed in this regard and the petitioner also deserves to be given similar 2 indulgence. Let the petitioner namely Mansoor Ali, therefore be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar in connection with Manihari P.S. Case No. 12 of 2006. One of the sureties will be executed by the immediate family member of the petitioner and the other by the close relation of the petitioner on due identification by the Court below. Petitioner is further directed to cooperate in the trial and shall not abscond and appear on each and every date in person or through his counsel. Shageer (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J)