IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.24428 of 2009 SHEIKH BHIKHI SON OF SHEIKH RAFIQUE RESIDENT OF VILLAGE NAUTANWA,P.S.SHIKARPUR,DISTT.WEST CHAMPARAN Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2/ 17.8.2009 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner seeks bail in a case which has been registered for offences under Sections 342,354,376 and 420/34 of the Indian Penal Code. An agreement was made for cultural programme and the informant came with others but the petitioner cheated her. Further allegation is that the petitioner and others took away the informant on a motorcycle in a College and there she was raped by a number of persons. Submission is that the petitioner is a man of 70 years and he is in jail custody since 5.4.2009. Similarly situated co-accused Ajay Prasad has been granted bail by a bench of this Court on 18.5.2006 Vide Cr.Misc.No. 19755 of 2006. Considering the facts and circumstances of the case, let the above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate/concerned court, West Champaran, Bettiah in Shikarpur P.S.Case No. 40 of 2005. Tahir/- ( Shyam Kishore Sharma, J. )