IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.2201 of 2008 KOKAI MANDAL Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3 2.5.2008 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is an accused in a case under sections 143, 380 and 454 of the Penal Code. The allegation in the F.I.R. is that there was a group led by Awadhesh Mandal known as Faizan party. It is alleged that at about 12 a.m. on the date of occurrence, 21 persons came to the house of the informant and looted his house taking away the food items that was stored in the house. The F.I.R. has been lodged after ten days of the occurrence. Considering the period of custody, the court below is directed to verify the criminal antecedent of the petitioner and if the same is found to be clean, the petitioner Kokai Mandal will be released on bail in Bhawanipur PS Case No. 72/2004 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Purnea. haque (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)