Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.6596 of 2012 ====================================================== Sachidanand Rai .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.7340 of 2012 ====================================================== Shailesh Pandey@Shailesh Kumar Pandey .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.9633 of 2012 ====================================================== Vikky Kumar @ Vikky Kumar Gupta .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . Kamlesh Kumar, Gorakh Paswan and Suraj Paswan were caught hold while driving the stolen tractor who confessed that they used to sell it by Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.6596 of 2012 (2) dt.06-03-2012 2 / 2 2 creating the forged registration documents in the border area Chapra, Siwan and the State of U.P. The apprehended accused named these petitioners. It is submitted that there is no recovery from the petitioners and the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the petitioners, above named, be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Bheldi P.S. Case No. 116 of 2011 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Saran at Chapra, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 401

Statute Text:
Section 401 of the Indian Penal Code. Belonging to a wandering gang of persons associated for the purpose of habitually committing thefts. Whoever, at any time after the passing of this Act, shall belong to any wandering or other gang of persons associated for the purpose of habitually committing theft or robbery, and not being a gang of thugs or dacoits, shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.