IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA CRIMINAL APPEAL (SJ) No.4857 of 2024 Arising Out of PS. Case No.-852 Year-2022 Thana- BIHTA District- Patna ====================================================== Sanket Kumar @ Raifal Yadav @ Ramfal Yadav, S/o Rajkumar Yadav, R/o Village- Kanchanpur Tola, P.S.- Bihta, District- Patna ... ... Appellant/s Versus 1. The State of Bihar 2. Mahapati Devi, D/o Late Surendra Paswan, R/o Village- Kanchanpur, P.S- Bihta, Distt.- Patna. ... ... Respondent/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Appellant/s : Mr. Prem Kumar, Advocate For the Respondent/s : Mr. Sadanand Paswan, Spl.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHANDRA SHEKHAR JHA ORAL ORDER 5 28-02-2025 This is the second bail petition pressed by the appellant after rejection of his first prayer for bail through Cr. Appeal (SJ) No.296 of 2024 dated 13.03.2024, where it was directed by this Court to the learned trial court to conclude the trial of appellant within a period of six months. A liberty was also given to the appellant to renew the prayer of bail if learned trial court has failed to conclude the trial within aforesaid period. 2. The accused/appellant is in custody since 31.08.2022. 3. Considering the custody period and also by Patna High Court CR. APP (SJ) No.4857 of 2024(5) dt.28-02-2025 2/2 taking note of observation made by this Court, as discussed above, a report was called for from the learned trial court, which is made available through Letter No.44/2025 dated 15.02.2025. From perusal of the said report, it appears that all the prosecution witnesses have been examined in this case and the case was fixed on 21.02.2025 for statement of accused persons under Section 313 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (in short ‘CrPC’). 4. In view of aforesaid report, as all prosecution witnesses have been examined in this case and for same reason, it can be said that the trial of this case is at its fag end, there is no occasion to consider the present bail prayer on the ground of delay in trial. 5. Accordingly, the present appeal, being devoid of any merit, stands dismissed. Sanjeet/- (Chandra Shekhar Jha, J.) U T