IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr Misc No 4889 of 2011 Ram Pravesh Singh, son of Sri Jagdeo Singh, resident of village – Bahuara, P S – Raja Pakar, P O – Bahuara, via – Bidupur Railway Station, District – Vaishali at Hajipur - Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar - Opposite Party ----------- 2 01.03.2011 The petitioner is in custody in relation to Sonepur Police Station Case No 16 of 2010 registered under Sections 302, 201/34 of Indian Penal Code. The first information report has been lodged by the Officer-in-charge of Sonepur Police Station on basis of recovery of a dead body of a youth lying in the field. Later, the dead body was identified when the photograph was published in newspaper by Chandrika Das who claimed that it was the dead body of his son Rupesh Kumar. He then disclosed to investigator that his son and petitioner’s daughter, both of whom were adults, were in love. They had eloped to Kanpur and were staying at a place of the distant relation of the petitioner. It is further alleged that the petitioner, by his Bolero car, went to Kanpur and apparently pacified both the parties that is the boy and the girl and alluring them to get married, brought them but on way killed the son and had secreted away his daughter. It is on this basis that the petitioner has been chargesheeted. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that all that is said and done by the prosecution is only suspicion, surmises and hearsay. Petitioner’s daughter is also still traceless. Having perused the order of the learned Sessions Judge, it is apparent that no one has seen the occurrence as is being narrated. They are only based on conjecture. Learned counsel for Chandrika Das also appeared and he was heard and 2 he could not point any material whereby there was any direct evidence available. All that he said that there was strong circumstantial proof. Having considered the matter, the petitioner abovenamed is directed to be released on bail on his furnishing bonds of Rs 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Saran at Chapra in Sonepur Police Station Case No 16 of 2010 dated 16.01.2010. M.E.H./ (Navaniti Prasad Singh)