IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.35818 of 2008 RAMA KANT SHARMA @ GURU JEE SON OF NAND KESHAR SHARMA RESIDENT OF VILLAGE HASANPURA,POLICE STATION SHAKURABAD,DISTRICT JEHANABAD Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3/ 19.11.2008 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks bail in a case which has been registered for offences under Sections 386,427 and 342/34 of the Indian Penal Code and 27 of the Arms Act. The informant was engaged in construction and widening work of Kurtha- Shakurabad road. The allegation is that when the informant who is driver of J.C.B. was returning, 8 to 10 miscreants came there and stopped the machine and demanded rangdari tax. They also resorted to firing upon the tyre of the machine. Submission is that the name of the petitioner has come in the statement of Shail Kumar who is a witness in the first information report and there is no explanation as to why the petitioner was not named by the said Shail Kumar when the first information was being registered. Further submission is that the petitioner has no 2 criminal antecedent and some other similarly co-accused including Baijnath Sharma and Pankaj Sharma have been granted bail by different orders of this Court. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in Shakurabad P.S.Case No. 27 of 2007. Tahir/- ( Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)