IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.31333 of 2008 MAHBOOB ALAM Versus STATE OF BIHAR - - - - 2. 18.8.2008 Heard. The case being one to be tried by a Magistrate of any Class and the petitioner having remained in attendance for about four years or so and not getting the same disposed of appears absenting in 1998. The rejection order indicates that the petitioner was arrested on warrant of arrest issued against him and has been remanded in the case on 5.9.2007 and since then he is in custody. The learned Judge, while declining to release the petitioner on bail, could have done well by indicating as to what was the stage or progress made by the trial Magistrate in the trial. The Court assumes that the trial has not started in spite of the petitioner being in custody since a year. Let the above named petitioner be directed to be released from custody on his furnishing a bond of Rs. 3,000/-( three thousand) with two sureties of the like amount 2 each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Katihar, in Abadpur P.S.Case No. 17 of 1994, G.R. No. 898 of 1994. Kanth ( Dharnidhar Jha, J.)