Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2421 of 2012 ====================================================== Prince Kumar .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER (Per: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH) 2 25-01-2012 Petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that some villagers were protesting against the death of a person by keeping his dead body on NH-83 and when the police reached there, they misbehaved to the police and committed theft. The name of the petitioner sprang up on the basis of visual in the videography being done of the incidence. Considering the general nature of accusation against the mob, in the background of death of a person, let the petitioner namely Prince Kumar, in the event of his arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Jehanabad in connection with Jehanabad P.S. Case No. 430 of 2010. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 431

Statute Text:
Section 431 of the Indian Penal Code. Mischief by injury to public road, bridge, navigable river, or navigable channel and rendering it impassable or less safe for travelling or conveying property. Whoever commits mischief by doing any act which renders or which he knows to be likely to render any public road, bridge, navigable river or navigable channel, natural or artificial, impassable or less safe for travelling or conveying property, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, or with fine, or with both.