IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.37113 of 2008 1.KUSHESHWAR THAKUR, son of Late Madhukant Thakur 2.JOG MAYA DEVI, wife of Kusheshwar Thakur 3.SANTOSH THAKUR, son of Kusheshwar Thakur All residents of Village Dhandhua, P.S. Jandaha, District Vaishali ---- Petitioners Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2. 27.11.2008 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in connection with Jandaha P.S. Case No.24/2008 for the alleged offences registered under sections 302, 120B and 201/34 of the Indian Penal Code. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioners that petitioners no.1 and 2, aged about 75 and 70 years respectively, are the father-in-law and the mother-in-law of the deceased and petitioner no.3 is the Shala of the deceased. It is further submitted that petitioners no.1 and 2 are old persons and cannot be expected to commit the alleged crime although there is no specific allegation against them. The learned APP appearing for the State opposes the prayer for bail. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let petitioners no.1 and 2 above named, in the event of their arrest or surrender in connection with Jandaha P.S. Case No.24/2008 within a 2 period of four weeks from today, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur, in connection with the aforesaid case, on the conditions mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 438 of the Code of Criminal Procedure. So far as the prayer for anticipatory bail made on behalf of petitioner no.3 Santosh Thakur is concerned, considering the nature of allegation, I am not inclined to enlarge him on anticipatory bail. This application, as against petitioner no.3, is, accordingly, dismissed. PNM (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)