IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.40407 of 2008 NATHUNI SINGH & ORS Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- For the petitioners: Mr Awadhesh Kumar Singh For the State: Mr Nand Kishore Prasad, A.P.P. ---------- 2 27.11.2008 Heard. The death of the victim has been caused by public lynching. Information in relation thereto was given to the police by the son of the petitioner no.1 and petitioner no.1 is also a witness of the said information. Pursuant to the said information the victim was taken to hospital where ultimately the victim died. In the subsequent information the father of the victim has alleged that it is the petitioners and others who had killed the victim by assault. Considering the said state of affairs and taking note of the fact that the victim had gone to jail in the past for having committed theft and the alleged recent public lynching was also for commitment of theft, I allow the application of petitioners. Let the petitioners (Nathuni Singh, Ganesh Singh, Bipin Singh, Ramesh Singh, Yugal Singh and Kamal Singh), in the event of arrest or surrender within six weeks from today, be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs 10,000/ - (rupees ten thousand) - 2 - each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in Goroul P.S. Case no. 94 of 2008 subject to the condition as laid down under section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. shahid (Barin Ghosh, J)