IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.28134 of 2009 SIDH NATH SINGH @ SIDHYA NATH SINGH, son of Sri Bindeshwari Prasad Singh, resident of village- Ichari, Police Station- Jagdishpur, District Bhojpur…… Petitioner. Versus STATE OF BIHAR . ----------- 4. 04.11.2009. Heard counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. The petitioner having been made accused for offence under Sections 467, 468, 420 and 120 B of the IPC seeks bail in this case on the ground that though the FIR was lodged against unknown person in the year 1988, his complicity has emerged only in course of investigation which has been recently concluded in the year 2009 inasmuch as the charge-sheet has been submitted against the petitioner only in the year 2009. Counsel for the petitioner submits that petitioner has no criminal antecedent except in two similar cases, Katra P. S. Case No. 73 of 1998 and Katra P. S. Case No. 76 of 1988. Taking into account that the petitioner was not named in the first information report and has remained in service from the date of institution of this case against unknown and had retired peacefully in the year 2007 as also the fact that the petitioner on being summoned had 2 given statement in this very case in the year 1995 and yet no action was taken against him till the investigating officer had found a material against him and had filed an application for issuance of warrant of arrest against the petitioner on Feb 2008, this court is inclined to direct the petitioner namely Sidh Nath Singh @ Sidhya Nath Singh to be released on bail on his furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Muzaffarpur in connection with Katra P. S. Case No. 78 of 1988, subject to the condition that he shall remain present in course of trial regularly and punctually and his absence on two consecutive dates shall itself entail the automatic consequences of cancellation of his bail under this order. kanchan (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)