IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28070 of 2011 Birendra Pandey S/O Yogendra Pandey R/O Village Indapur, P.S. Dhansoi, Distt. Buxar ………………… Petitioner Versus The State Of Bihar ……….. Opposite Party ---------------------------------- 3 19.10.2011 Heard Sri Siddhartha Harsh, learned counsel for the petitioner and Sri Jitendra Kumar, learned Additional Public Prosecutor. This is the second attempt for grant of bail. Earlier, prayer for bail of the petitioner was rejected on 11.03.2011 vide Cr. Misc. No. 39889 of 2010. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that in this case three persons were made accused and other two persons namely Varun Pandey and Vinod Pandey against whom there were serious allegations than the petitioner have already been granted bail. Learned counsel for the petitioner has drawn my attention to paragraph no. 6 of the petition wherein it has been indicated that co-accused Vinod Pandey was granted bail by this court on 19.04.2011 vide Cr. Misc. No. 43002 of 2010. Similarly, co-accused Varun Pandey has been granted bail by this court on 28.06.2011 vide Cr. Misc. No. 18790 of 2011. It was further submitted that allegation of rape was made against two co-accused persons who have already been granted bail. In view of the fact that two co-accused persons have 2 already been granted bail, there is no reason to deny the prayer for bail to the petitioner. Let the petitioner namely, Birendra Pandey, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bonds of Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Sub Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Bikramganj, Rohtas, in connection with Surajpura Police Station Case No. 44 of 2010. Praful ( Rakesh Kumar, J.)