IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.15781 of 2008 ANANT PANDEY Versus STATE OF BIHAR with Cr.Misc. No.17228 of 2008 SHYAM KUMAR @ SHYAM JEE & ANR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 13.5.2008 The informant entered appearance by filing Vakalatna. Heard learned counsel for the petitioners, learned APP for the State and learned counsel for the informant. Petitioners are accused in a case under sections 302, 201 and 120B read with 34 of the Indian Penal Code and 27 of the Arms Act. It has been submitted that the petitioner Anant Pandey is not named in the FIR whereas other petitioners are named therein. It has further been submitted that Sashi Kant Nirala @ Santu Singh and three others have been allowed bail by this Court on 17.4.2008 in Cr.Misc.no. 55604/07 and the case of the petitioners is also similarly situated. He further submitted that the informant himself is not eye witness of the occurrence and the - 2 - circumstantial evidence collected against the petitioners is also quite weak. It has further been submitted that the petitioners are rotting in custody merely on the basis of suspicion. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances of the case, the three petitioners, namely Anant Pandey, Shyam Kumar @ Shyam Jee and Gopal Kumar are directed to be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Nawada in Nawada Town PS case no.252/07. AI (M.Saran, J)