IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.14036 of 2009 PAWAN YADAV Versus STATE OF BIHAR ----------- 2 23.7.2009 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. Petitioner is in custody since 9.11.2008 in relation to Gopalpur (Rangra) P.S. Case No. 370 of 2008 which was instituted under Arms Act. FIR was lodged by the police that on information the police went to the place where the petitioner and other persons had assembled. They started fleeing away when the petitioner was arrested on chase and from his physical possession one revolver and one country made gun were recovered based on which the present case came to be registered. Submission of learned counsel for the petitioner is that the petitioner was there for protection of his ancestral property including Jalkar and he has been targeted by the police at the instance of his opponent. It is further submitted that his brother has also been eliminated while he was in custody by opponents. Looking at the nature of the allegation and the period the petitioner has remained in custody, let the petitioner, namely, Pawan Yadav be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 20,000/- (Rs. Twenty thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Naugachia, District- Bhagalpur in connection with - 2 - Gopalpur P.S. Case No. 370 of 2008 (G.R. No. 1384 of 2008). One of the sureties will be executed by a close relative of the petitioner and the other by an elected representative of the area. It is further recorded that the petitioner will cooperate in the trial and shall not abscond. RPS (Ajay Kumar Tripathi,J.)