IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.43023 of 2008 ANIL SINGH …… PETITIONER Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR …… OPP. PARTY ----------- 2. 18.11.2008 Heard Sri Mithilesh Kumar Sharma, Advocate for the petitioner and Sri D. Mehta, APP for the State. A motor cycle was moving on the road and pillion rider seeing the police force is said to be running away, who was arrested and it was this petitioner and on search the petitioner was found carrying a loaded pistol made in China, besides a couple of cartridges on his person. The contention is that the pistol has not been made in China, rather it was country made and further the petitioner does not bear any criminal antecedent. The further contention is that circumstances in the locality made it compulsory to people to possess some arms for their own safety, knowing that the same may be illegal. The court is not concerned by the argument made by the petitioner, as regards the explanation of possessing the illegal arms. Possessing illegal arms is the mother of an offence. Considering the above facts, I am not inclined to - 2 - direct the release of the petitioner for the present. The petition is dismissed. If the trial of the petitioner is not concluded within one year from the date of remand of the petitioner in Nawada P.S. Case No. 127 of 2008, then the court below shall itself release the petitioner on bail on execution of a bond to its own satisfaction. DKS/ (Dharnidhar Jha, J.)