IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.23440 of 2010 1. BIGAN SAH S/o Adalat Sah 2. Harindra Sah @ Harendra Sah S/o Late Ramdeo Sah 3. Kanhaiya Sah S/o Kapil Sah 4. Kapildeo Sah @ Kapil Sah S/o Adalat Sah 5. Triloki Sah S/o Kapil Sah 6. Dinesh Sah S/o Late Ramdeo Sah 7. Adalat Sah S/o Late Chuni Sah 8. Dudhnath Sah S/o Bigan Sah All resident of Vill-Parsa Mathiya, P.S.-Lauria, Dist-West Champaran Versus STATE OF BIHAR . ----------- 2. 03.08.2010 Heard learned counsel for the petitioners and the State. Petitioner nos. 1 and 7 have been arrested during the pendency of the case, as such their application for anticipatory bail is dismissed as infructuous. So far as petitioner nos. 2 to 6 and 8 are concerned, they are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under Sections 323, 384, 307, 504, 379, 427 and 149 of the Indian Penal Code. It is alleged that the ransom demand of Rs. 50,000/- from the informant on behalf of the petitioner was made for harvesting crop. The impugned order suggests that the land in question is still not partitioned between the parties. Partition Suit No. 170 of 1998 was filed and during pendency of the partition suit 2 informant have purchased some of the portion of the joint family property and then lodged the present case. Considering the nature of allegation and the background in which the present case has been lodged, let the petitioner nos. (2) Harindra Sah @ Harendra Sah (3) Kanhaiya Sah (4) Kapildeo Sah @ Kapil Sah (5) Triloki Sah (6) Dinesh Sah and (8) Dudhnath Sah in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be enlarged on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, West Champaran at Bettiah in connection with Lauria P.S. Case No. 57 of 2010 subject to the condition as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Anand Kr. ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)