IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.21856 of 2008 RAKESH KUMAR SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3 11.7.2008 Heard the parties. The petitioner is an accused in a case under sections 364A/34 of the Penal Code. The petitioner’s prayer for bail was earlier rejected by this court on two earlier occasions. The involvement of the petitioner has come in the statement of one Sita Ram who is a co-accused in this case. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that whereas other accused persons have been named by several other co-accused, this petitioner has not been named by anyone except Sita Ram. It is also submitted that Manoj Kumar Rai, Sanjay Pantel and Umesh Bhagat have been granted bail by this court vide Cr.Misc. No. 20616/2008 and Cr. Misc. No. 17525/2008 vide orders, dated 2.6.2008 and 14.5.2008 respectively. It is also submitted that the petitioner has a clean antecedent and has produced a character certificate from the Block Dev. Officer to show that there is no case pending against him. The petitioner has remained in custody for one year and ten months. In the aforesaid facts the petitioner Rakesh Kumar Singh is directed to be released on bail in S.T. No. 38/2007 arising out of Muzaffarpur (T) PS Case No. 253/2006 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the 2 satisfaction of the Addl. District Judge Ist, Muzaffarpur with the conditions that one of the bailer should be a close relation of the petitioner and that the petitioner should cooperate during the trial and should appear on each and every date as and when required and if he absents himself even for a single date without cause, his bail bond shall stand cancelled. haque (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)