IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.20435 of 2009 SUDHIR MISTRY Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3. 31.8.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. The petitioner is in custody in a Police case under Sections 302, 201 and 120(B)/34 of the Penal Code. It is submitted that the petitioner is not named in the F.I.R. which otherwise names the husband and other family members of the deceased. The petitioner is not even a family member of the husband. There is no eye witness to the murder. Learned counsel for the State points out that the deceased and her two children had been brutally killed and their bodies abandoned near the river. During investigation it has transpired that the husband of the deceased engaged one Manjhi to commit the murder. Witnesses have stated that the petitioner was suspected to be an accomplice of Manjhi, but without any disclosure of the materials in support of the reasons for the statement. In the facts and circumstances of the case, let the petitioner, above named be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/-( ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the SDJM, Masaurhi, Patna in connection with Punpun P.S. Case No. 28/2008. P. Kumar (Navin Sinha, J.)