Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.44988 of 2011 ====================================================== 1. Mahesh Chaudhary 2. Anita Devi 3. Chandan Kumar @ Chandan Bharati 4. Krishna Chaudhary 5. Krishna Pandit. 6. Shiv Shankar Kumar @ Chhotu Kumar .... .... Petitioners Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== 2 05-01-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that the petitioners assaulted the informant. The F.I.R. was lodged against unknown. During investigation, no clue was found and the final form was submitted, but subsequently, on protest, the cognizance has been taken. Considering the fact that police did not find the accusation true against the petitioners, let the above named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail in the event of their arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Judicial Magistrate, 1st Class, Jehanabad in connection with Mukhdumpur P.S. Case No. 118 of 2010 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Amrendra Kumar/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 149

Statute Text:
Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. If an offence be committed by any member of an unlawful assembly, every other member of such assembly shall be guilty of the offence. If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.