IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.41265 of 2009 Binod Paswan, Son of Shankar Paswan, Resident of Village Amror, P.S. Mufassil, District Begusarai. -------- Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar ------- Opp. Party ----------- 2 2.12.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and counsel for the State. Considering the fact that the petitioner facing prosecution for an offence under Sections 395/397 of the Indian Penal Code has not only been named by an independent witness to be around at the place of occurrence when the incident in question took place but also gets named in the confessional statement of co-accused and thereafter has accepted his involvement in the said occurrence in his own confessional statement which cannot be said to be an exculpatory statement, this Court would not be inclined to grant bail to the petitioner taking into account that he has also got a chequered history of being accused in three more criminal cases of almost similar nature. That being so, the prayer for bail of the petitioner, namely, Binod Paswan is hereby rejected with a direction to the trial court to expedite the trial of the petitioner. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)