AB 1194/2011 BEFORE HON’BLE MR JUSTICE B.D. AGARWAL This application under Section 438 Cr. P.C. has been filed by the accused petiti oners Md. Baharul Islam, Md. Malek Ali, Shri Kamal Chetry and Shri Premaananda B iswas praying for pre-arrest bail apprehending their arrest in connection Bihpur ia P.S. Case No. 71 of 2011(GR Case No. 310 of 2011) under Sections 420/506/34 I.P.C. Heard Mr. P.K. Barman, learned counsel for the accused petitioners and M r. B.S. Sinha, learned Addl. P.P. for the State respondent. Also perused the cas e diary. The allegation against the accused petitioners is that they have illegal ly collected different amounts of money from the villagers on the pretext of bri nging financial relief of C.I sheets from the Govt. Thereafter, financial relief was not given to them. In the case diary I find that many persons have been examined by the I.O. and al l of them have stated about the collection of money by the accused petitioners f rom the poor villagers. It is true that the matter was amicably settled in a pub lic meeting and joint compromise petition has been submitted to the O.C. of Bih puria P.S to resolve the dispute but such compromise cannot be taken into consi deration as the poor persons have been cheated by the accused petitioners. Considering the serious nature of allegations, the bail prayer is rejected. The interim bail granted on 06.05.2011 is hereby vacated. The I.O. shall submit the forwarding report to the court. AB stands dismissed.