IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.12259 of 2011 1. SHAMBHU PANDIT, S/O RAM PRAVESH PANDIT. 2. KRISHANDEO PANDIT,S/O RAM PRAGVESH PANDIT 3. RADHA KRISHNA PANDIT,S/O ANUP LAL PANDIT. 4. BHARAT PANDIT, S/O SHANKAR PANDIT. Versus THE STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 02 21.04.2011 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in complaint case in which cognizance has been taken under Section 323 of the Indian Penal Code and 3/4 of the Witch Craft Act. The accusation is that the petitioners’ side were under impression that the complainant has played some witchcraft on the family of the petitioners hence they were forcing the complainant to remove the effect of witchcraft from the house. Learned counsel for the petitioners submit that there is a land dispute between the parties and the petitioners had earlier lodged a case against the complainant side. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the 2 above named, petitioners, be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand)each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Complaint Case No. 1556(C) /2009, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Nitesh/Safik (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)