IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CR.MISC. NO.977 OF 2009 1. PANKAJ KUMAR, SON OF LATE VISHWANATH PRASAD SINGH 2. MUKESH KUMAR, SON OF LAXMAN SINGH ALL ARE RESIDENT OF VILLAG EDELWAR, POLICE STATION VAISHALI (BALSAR), DISTRICT VAISHALI ……… ………………. ………PETITIONERS VERSUS STATE OF BIHAR ******** 2 26.02.2009 Heard learned Counsel for the petitioners and the A.P.P. appearing on behalf of the State. Petitioners apprehend their arrest in a case under Section 307 and other sections of the Indian Penal Code. Two cases have been instituted arising out of the same occurrence. The first is Vaishali (Balsar) Police Station Case No. 201 of 2008 filed by the S.I. of Balsar Police Station. The second case is instituted by Om Prakash Shukla which is the subject matter of the present bail application. Learned Counsel for the petitioners submits that the petitioner no. 1 is the Sarpanch and petitioner no. 2 is the member of the panchayat samiti and both of them had come to save Abha Devi when they heard that the informant of the present case along with one Birendra Pratap Singh were trying to 2 influence Abha Devi to cast her vote in favour of their candidate. It is submitted that there is an omnibus allegation against the petitioners and that they are not named in the case filed by the police party who had reached at the time of the occurrence. Considering the aforesaid submission, the above named petitioners are directed to be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest/surrender before the Court below within a period of six weeks in Vaishali (Balsar) Police Station Case No. 200 of 2008 on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur subject to the conditions laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. Anand ( Sheema Ali Khan, J. )