IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.50114 of 2008 1. MEGHU PASWAN 2. Ram Pratap Paswan Both sons of Asharfhi Paswan 3. Bigu Paswan S/o Sukha Paswan All of village Gosaipur, P.S. Shyampur Bhataha, District- Sheohar ------- Petitioners Versus STATE OF BIHAR ------- Opposite Party. ----------- 2 27.1.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the counsel appearing on behalf of the State. Petitioners are accused in a case under Section 307 along with other Sections of the Indian Penal Code. It is said that the Block Development Officer had gone to make an enquiry with respect to persons who had been affected by the recent flood. A group of agitated villagers gathered at the spot and it is alleged that some of them threw some stones at the informant. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that these petitioners are innocent. They had made an application before the Block Development Officer and as such they have been named in the First Information Report. Although the Block Development Officer had no 2 means of identifying these petitioners as they were not known to him. Considering the aforesaid facts, petitioners namely Meghu Paswan, Ram Pratap Paswan and Bigu Paswan are directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender in connection with Shyampur Bhataha P.S. Case No. 9 of 2008 on furnishing bail bonds of rupees ten thousand each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sheohar subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Sanjay (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)