Santosh Mahato And ORS. v. The State Of Bihar
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA
Criminal Miscellaneous No.14076 of 2015 Arising Out of PS.Case No. -2 Year- 2015 Thana -SC/ST PS District- GOPALGANJ ======================================================
1. Santosh Mahato Son of Banarshi Mahtao
2. Satrudhan Mahato Son of Banarashi Mahato
3. Bijaymal Mahato Son of Mahatam Mahato
4. Adalat Mahato Son of Late Banarshi Mahato .... .... Petitioner/s
Versus
1. The State of Bihar.
.... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance :
For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Vijay Shankar Shrivastava, Advocate For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. Sadanand Paswan (Spl.App) ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 08-05-2015 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State.
The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under Sections 341, 323, 379, 504/34 of the Indian Penal Code and section 3(1) (x) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
It is alleged that the petitioners along with Rajendra Mahato came at the shop of the informant and demanded articles of the shop on credit, on refusal of the same, the informant abused by calling caste name and assaulted. Petitioner no. 1 Santosh Mahto dragged the informant by catching his hair when wife of the informant came to rescue she was also assaulted by
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14076 of 2015 (2) dt.08-05-2015 2/2 them. It is further alleged that petitioner no.2 took away Rs.6,000/- cash and other articles worth Rs.20,000/- from the shop of the informant.
It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that for the occurrence of 04.01.2015, the FIR was registered on 08.01.2015 and at earlier point of time there were 107 proceeding initiated between the parties and the matter has been compromised. A statement has been made in paragraph 3 of the petition that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the delayed lodging of the case, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of `10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Sub-Divisional Judicial Magistrate, Gopalganj in connection with Gopalganj SC/ST P.S. Case No.2 of 2015, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C.
(Dinesh Kumar Singh, J) Ashwini/- U T