Tunnu Mehta @ Shashikant Mehta v. The State Of Bihar

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA

Criminal Miscellaneous No.23235 of 2017 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -78 Year- 2016 Thana -MUFFASIL District- AURANGABAD ====================================================== Tunnu Mehta @ Shashikant Mehta, s/o late Jagarnath Mehta, r/v Sajawan, P.S. Haidar Nagar, District- Palamu (Jharkhand) .... .... Petitioner/s

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The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :

For the Petitioner/s : Mr. B.J. Ojha, Adv. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. R.B. Roy 'Raman', APP ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE VINOD KUMAR SINHA ORAL ORDER 04-07-2017 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State.

The petitioner seeks bail in a case registered for the offence punishable under Section 392 of the Indian Penal Code in connection with Aurangabad (M) P.S. Case No. 78/2016. The petitioner is not named in the FIR. His name transpired during course of investigation.

It has been submitted on behalf of the petitioner that except confessional statement of co-accused Santosh Kumar, there is nothing against the petitioner and no recovery is alleged to have been made against him. The petitioner has not been put on Test Identification Parade and further the petitioner is in custody since 01.01.2017. It has also been submitted that so far antecedent is concerned, he has been made accused in four cases, but as a matter

Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.23235 of 2017 (4) dt.04-07-2017 2/2 of fact, these relate to the two occurrences only and he is on bail in all those cases.

Heard learned Additional Public Prosecutor also. Having heard both sides, in view of the facts, stated above, let the petitioner, above named, be enlarged on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 25,000/- (Twenty Five Thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad, in connection with Aurangabad (M) P.S. Case No. 78/2016, subject to the conditions that one of the bailors must be local bailor and another having sufficient immovable property within the jurisdiction of the court below with further condition that he will co-operate in disposal of the trial and will make himself available before the court and failure to appear on two consecutive dates without any appropriate reason will be liable for cancellation of his bail. (Vinod Kumar Sinha, J.) Rakhi U T