IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12426 of 2008 BISHWANATH SINGH Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 2.05.2008 Heard the learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners apprehend their arrest in connection with. Barachatti P.S.Case No. 16 of 2007 registered under sections 384 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code. It is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that petitioner is a responsible man and the man of means and as such he has falsely been implicated in this case. It is further submitted on behalf of the petitioner that on perusal of the allegations levelled in the first information report it would appear that there is allegation of Rangdari etc. and as such apart from lodging of the present case another case was lodged in the District of Gaya Barachatti P.S. Case No. 18 of 2007 in which case also the petitioner was falsely implicated and for that petitioner approached this court was granted Anticipatory bail by order dated 21.02.2008 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 56576 of 2007. In the above circumstances, it is submitted on behalf of the petitioner that he is a responsible and respectable man and has got nothing to do with the allegation levelled in the first information report as such he is entitled to grant of anticipatory bail. Learned Addl. P.P. appearing on behalf of the State on the other hand opposes the prayer for bail, however he is not in position to refute the submissions advanced on behalf of the petitioner. Having considered the submissions and on perusal of the 2 allegations levelled in the first information report as well as considering the fact that another co-accused have been granted anticipatory bail, it is directed that in the event of arrest or surrender within a period of four weeks from today, the petitioner Bishwanath Singh be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sherghatti, Gaya in connection with Barachatti P.S. Case No. 16 of 2007 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Jagdish (Shailesh Kumar Sinha, J.)