IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Cr.Misc. No.24145 of 2011 Mahesh Prasad S/o late Tuntun Prasad, R/o Mohalla Salempur, Chapra, P.S.-Chapra, District-Saran, presently posted as Block Development Officer, Jandaha Block, P.S.- Jandaha, District-Vaishali. ..........Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar. .........Opposite Party ----------- 02 22.07.2011 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. It is submitted on behalf of petitioner that prior to the institution of the present case, the petitioner had given written report to the Officer In-charge, Jandaha, on the basis of which a case under sections 348, 353, 427, 504, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code was registered against the local M.L.A. and two others. The petitioner is a Block Development Officer of Jandaha Block. He has alleged in his First Information Report that the accused persons named in the First Information Report instituted by him entered into his office chamber, abused and manhandled him. They interfered in discharge of his official duties. It is also submitted that when this case was got instituted, the accused persons named in that case set up one Shatrughana Das, who got the 2 present case instituted for various offences including the offence under section 409, 420, 323, 504 and 506 of the Indian Penal Code as also under section 3 (x) of SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the institution of the present case is apparently with an oblique motive and an abuse of the process of law. He further submits that from the allegation itself, it would transpire that the incident of occurrence as alleged, has taken place in his office chamber, which in no way can be referred to be a public place. In that view of the matter, his submission is that the offence under SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act could not be attributed. Taking into consideration the aforesaid facts as well as submissions and the background under which the present case has been registered, let the petitioner, namely, Mahesh Prasad, in the event of his arrest or surrender before learned court below within a period of four weeks from the date of communication of this order, be released on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 5,000/- (five thousand) with 3 two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hajipur, in connection with Jandaha P.S. Case No. 21 of 2011. Safik (Ashwani Kumar Singh, J.)