IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.23847 of 2011 Uma Shankar Chaudhary, S/O-Late Ram Swaroop Chaudhary Versus The State Of Bihar ----------- 03 30.09.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner as well as learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. Petitioner is in jail custody since 22.03.2011 in a case registered in the year 2004 for the offences under Sections 302/34 of the Indian Penal Code and 27 of the Arms Act. Petitioner is named in the first information report and it is stated that he along with other accused went to the house of the deceased and when the deceased was not found in his house, petitioner and his associate gave threatening to the wife of the deceased and subsequently, they proceeded towards village in search of the deceased and later on, informant heard the sound of firing and when she went near the place of occurrence, she found her husband lying dead. The contention of learned counsel for the petitioner is that none has seen the actual killing of the deceased and the petitioner and other accused persons have been roped in this case on mere suspicion. It is also contended by him that having similar allegation, co-accused Bhagelu Chaudhary has already been granted privilege of bail by this Court vide order dated 06.08.2004 passed in Cr. Misc. No. 22199 of 2004. It is further contended by him that though the alleged occurrence took place in the year 2004 but petitioner has sufficiently, been punished by remaining in jail custody since 22.03.2011. 2 Considering the aforesaid facts and circumstances as well as materials available on the case diary, let the petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Siwan in connection with Siwan (Muffassil) P.S. Case No. 02 of 2004. SHAHZAD ( Hemant Kumar Srivastava, J.)