IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12280 of 2008 SANJAY KUMAR SINGH @ MANTOSH @ SANJAY SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR With Cr.Misc. No.15822 of 2008 RAJENDRA PASWAN @ AKHILESH JI & ANR Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3/ 17.9.2008 Since both the above applications arise out of one and the same police case, they have been heard together and are being disposed of by this common order. The present case has been registered for offences under Sections 396,307,427,332 and 120B of the Indian Penal Code,27 of the Arms Act, 3/4 of the Explosive Substances Act and 17 Criminal Law Amendment Act against 50 unknown extremists in connection with dacoity in State Bank of India, Madhuban Branch and murder of a guard of the said Bank. It is alleged that worth Rs.1,39,889/- was looted from the Bank by the extremists. Submission is that the petitioners are not named in the first information report, they have not been put on test identification parade and except their confession, there is nothing against them. The names of the petitioners have come also in the confessional statement of co-accused Annu Kumari alis Anju Paswan who has been granted bail by a Bench of this Court Vide Cr.Misc.No. 10061 of 2007 on 22.3.2007 and another similarly situated co-accused Shashi Bhushan Jha has also been granted bail by a Bench of this Court Vide Cr.Misc.No. 32330 of 2007 on 20.8.2007. Considering the facts and circumstances of 2 the case, let the petitioners namely, Sanjay Kumar Singh alias Mantosh alias Sanjay Singh (Cr.Misc.No. 12280 of 2008),Rajendra Paswan alias Akhilesh Ji and Nokhelal Choudhary alias Suraj (Cr.Misc.No.15822 of 2008) be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Subdivisional Judicial Magistrate, Sikrahana at Motihari in Madhuban P.S.Case No. 88 of 2005. Tahir/- ( Shyam Kishore Sharma, J.)