IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.46523 of 2007 CHHATHU PASWAN @ HEMANT KUMAR Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 5 19.5.2008 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner is an accused in a case under sections 8©/20(b) of the N.D.P.S. Act and section 47A of the Excise Act. The prosecution case is that four persons were carrying some Ganja on an auto rickshaw. The auto rickshaw was stopped and it is said that 20 kgs of Ganja was recovered and one Ajay Kumar Singh was caught. It is further said that the petitioner fled away. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that there is no recovery from the possession of this petitioner and Ajay Kumar Singh has been granted bail by this curt vide Criminal Misc. No. 51724 of 2007 on 13.2.2008 and the case of the petitioner stands on a better footing. The petitioner is in custody since 23. 3. 2007. Be that as it may, the petitioner Chhathu Paswan @ Hemant Kumar is directed to be released on bail in Ara (Town) PS Case No. 235/2006 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Addl. Sessions Judge, F.T.C. III, Bhojpur at Ara. haque (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)