IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.17949 of 2011 Mukesh Kumar Mandal Versus The State Of Bihar ----------- 03. 01.07.2011 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under Sections 341, 323, 376, 511, 504, 506/34 of the I.P.C. It is alleged against the petitioner that he tried to establish forceful physical relationship with the informant. It is also alleged that petitioner was apprehended on the spot but subsequently petitioner’s side got him released by applying force. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that petitioner’s side lodged a case against the informant’s side on 31.08.2010 then the present case was lodged on 27.09.2010 for alleged occurrence of 19.08.2010. It is also submitted that the informant has subsequently retracted from initial version and filed a petition to that effect before learned Court below. Delayed lodging of the F.I.R. and in the background of case lodged by the petitioner’s side at earlier point of time as well as the retracted version of the informant cloud the bona fide of the accusation. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioner namely Mukesh Kumar Mandal, in the event of his arrest 2 or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory 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, Araria in connection with Raniganj(Baushi) P.S. Case No. 226 of 2010. Shageer ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)