IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.15648 of 2008 SADHU BASDEO MANDAL @ SADHU MANDAL @ BASDEO MANDAL @ SADHU Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 4 23.09.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned A.P.P. for the State. Petitioner is in custody in connection with Jhajha Police Station Case No. 106 of 2007 for offences under section 376 of the Indian Penal Code, where there is an allegation that he had ravished a 12 year old girl after forcibly lifting her from the village well. Submission of learned counsel for the petitioner is that it is case of false accusation and allegation but the evidence of the witnesses which have come in the case diary does not seems to support the stand taken by the petitioner. There are other villagers who have supported the occurrence and the allegation. There is also reflection that in a panchayati held in the village, petitioner had agreed to pay a sum of Rs. 800/- as a fine for atoning his sin. Keeping the above facts and circumstances and also the evidence in mind that the petitioner is supposed to be a Sadhu, the Court does not consider it a fit case of enlarging him on bail. The bail application is rejected. Let the trial of the case be expedited. Rajeev/ (Ajay Kumar Tripathi, J.)