IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.19775 of 2008 VISHWANATH MAHTO Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 3 24.6.2008 Heard learned counsel for the parties. The petitioner is an accused in a case under sections 399 and 402 of the Penal Code. The petitioner had absconded for twenty years. He surrendered on 6.6.2007. The prayer for bail of the petitioner was earlier rejected on 24.8.2007. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that now the petitioner has completed one year in custody. In the circumstances the petitioner Vishwanath Mahto is directed to be released on bail in Barun PS Case No. 115/1987 on furnishing bail bond of rupees ten thousand with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad with the condition that both the bailers should be close family members or relation of the petitioner. haque (Sheema Ali Khan, J.)