IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12453 of 2011 Jhulan Pandey Versus The State Of Bihar ----------- 05/ 15.10.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Addl. Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 6.10.2010 in a case registered under section 386 of the IPC. It would appear from perusal of the case diary that the petitioner was caught red handed taking extortion money and subsequently, he confessed his guilt disclosing this fact that at the direction of one Ramesh Kumar, he handed over the sealed envelop and telephoned to the informant and furthermore, on the direction of the above stated Ramesh Kumar, he went to collect money. The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner does not have any criminal antecedent and he has sufficiently, been punished by remaining in jail custody since long and the offence is triable by the court of the Magistrate. Taking into consideration the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as submissions of the parties, particularly, keeping in mind the period of detention of the petitioner in jail custody as well as his clean antecedent, let the petitioner, Jhulan Pandey, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs 10,000/- with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in Kotwali P.S. Case no. 293/2010. shahid (Hemant Kumar Srivastava,J)