IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr. Misc. No.57806 of 2007 ARUN KUMAR SINGH Vrs. THE STATE OF BIHAR ***** /6/ 17.09.2008 Heard the counsel for the petitioner and the State. 2. Petitioner and other accused persons named in the first information report are alleged to have forcibly taken signature of the informant on a certificate and threatened him to implicate in a false case. Further it is alleged that they took away Rs.400/- from the pocket of the informant. The offence alleged are under Sections 379, 504 and other sections of the Indian Penal Code and 3 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Counsel for the petitioner submits that present case is counter blast of Kesariya P.S. Case No. 130 of 2003 filed by co-accused, Ashok Kumar Singh, as well as case filed before the consumer forum against the informant. It has also been stted that arrest of the petitioner was stayed by the Superintendent of Police, East Champaran, considering the fact that allegations are false. 3. Considering the fact that no offence under Section 3 of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act is made out on the basis of the allegation 2 made in the first information report as well as other reasons assigned by the petitioner, the prayer for grant of anticipatory bail on behalf of the petitioner, Arun Kumar Singh, is allowed. He is directed to be released on anticipatory bail, in case of his surrender before the Court concerned within four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each in connection with Kesariya P.S. Case No. 112 of 2004 to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Motihari, subject to the condition laid down under Section 438(2) of the Criminal Procedure Code. S.A. ( Mridula Mishra, J. )