Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.2914 of 2012 ====================================================== Sambhu Rai .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 05-03-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 27 of the Arms Act. The specific accusation of firing is against Madan Sah, Om Prakash Srivastava, Raja Kumar, Rambabu Prasad, Raju Kumar and two unknown persons. The petitioner is named in the F.I.R. but no specific overt act is alleged against the petitioner but considering the fact that the petitioner is involved in 10 other cases which as per the learned counsel for the petitioner has been lodged by co- villagers and in those cases the petitioner is on bail, this Court is not inclined to grant anticipatory bail to the petitioner but on merits it is a good case for consideration of regular bail. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.2914 of 2012 (3) dt.05-03-2012 2 / 2 2 Let the learned court below consider prayer for regular bail of the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders within six weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order in connection with Ghorasahan P.S. Case No. 176 of 2011 pending in the court of the learned S.D.J.M., Sikrahna at Motihari. With this observation, the application is disposed off. Let the order be faxed to the learned court below at the cost of the petitioner. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.