IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.40455 of 2010 Ravi Ranjan @ Bigan @ Big-B @ Upendra, son of Shri Uday Singh @ Ashok Singh, resident of village Jagdishpur, P.S. Masaurhi, District Patna. -------- Petitioner Versus State of Bihar ---------- Opp. Party ----------- 2 12.01.2011 Having heard learned counsel for the petitioner as also considering the nature of allegation and the criminal antecedent of the petitioner, this Court is not inclined to grant bail to the petitioner. On an earlier occasion, this Court had directed the trial court to ensure that the trial of the petitioner is expedited, but it appears that even after such direction in the order dated 31.8.2009 in Cr. Misc. No. 11268 of 2009, no effective steps have been taken for commencing the trial, much less, concluding the same. The trial court should not have left the matter only by recording the absence of other co-accused or some of them on a particular date and, in fact, it ought to have immediately cancelled the bail of all other non-appearing accused persons. That having been not done, this Court is not satisfied with the explanation given in the 2 order dated 28.9.2010, while rejecting the prayer for bail of the petitioner. The trial court, therefore, is now expected to take expeditious action to ensure that the trial of the petitioner, even if need be by segregating the same, must be concluded within a period of nine months from the date of receipt/production of a copy of this order. However, if the trial of the petitioner is not concluded within the aforementioned period, the petitioner will have liberty to move the trial court, which then would record reasons for not concluding the trial. It is hoped and believed that the trial court would take the matter on a top priority basis and do its best to conclude the trial of the petitioner. With the aforementioned observations and direction, this application is disposed of. Rsh (Mihir Kumar Jha, J.)