Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.3902 of 2012 ====================================================== Haripulice Paswan & Ors. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. Suresh Chand Giri For the State : Mr. Ajay Kumar Jha ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 06-02-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that petitioners were assaulting one Naresh Paswan and when the police reached to prevent him, petitioners and others started pelted stones. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that wife of the petitioner No. 1 also filed a complaint being Complaint Case No. 2064 of 2011 against the Officer-in-charge. It is further submitted that no injury was caused to any one. Considering the nature of accusation when no injury was caused to anyone, let the petitioners namely 1. Haripulice Paswan 2. Anjay Paswan 3. Akhilesh Paswan @ Awadhesh Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.3902 of 2012 (2) dt.06-02-2012 2 / 2 2 Paswan 4. Arun Paswan 5. Tilbul Paswan, in the event of their 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) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhagalpur in connection with Kahalgaon Rasalpur O.P. P.S. Case No. 372 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 353

Statute Text:
Section 353 of the Indian Penal Code. Assault or use of criminal force to deter a public servant from discharge of his duty. Whoever assaults or uses criminal force to any person being a public servant in the execution of his duty as such public servant, or with intent to prevent or deter that person from discharging his duty as such public servant, or in consequence of anything done or attempted to be done by such person to the lawful discharge of his duty as such public servant, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to two years, or with fine, or with both.