Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.47712 of 2012 (2) dt.19-12-2102 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.47712 of 2012 ====================================================== Ranjeet Kumar @ Chotu, S/o Late Lal Babu Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner/s : Mr. For the Opposite Party/s : Mr. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE VIKASH JAIN ORAL ORDER 2 19-12-2012 Heard the learned counsel for the petitioner and learned APP for the State. 2. The petitioner is in custody since 03.5.2012 in connection with alleged offences under [STATUTE] . registered in connection with Bye-Pass P.S. Case No. 31 of 2012. 3. The allegation is with regard to two young persons entering into the cabin of the informant’s truck and taking him along with the Khalasi away to the field after tying their hands later on when the informant returned in the morning he found that the truck loaded with beer were missing. 4. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he has not been named in the First Information Report nor put on Test Identification Parade nor any recovery has been made from his conscious possession and it is only the confessional statement of co-accused on which he has been implicated in this case. It is further submitted that the two similarly Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.47712 of 2012 (2) dt.19-12-2102 situated co-accused Jugani Kumar and Pawan Kumar have already been granted bail in Cr. Misc. No. 28066 of 2012 and Cr. Misc. No. 28797 of 2012 respectively. 5. Considering the aforesaid facts let the petitioner above named be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Patna City in connection with Bye-Pass P.S. Case No. 31 of 2012 on the following conditions- (i) That the petitioner will not indulge himself in any similar or other offence. (ii) One of the bailors must be a close relative of the petitioner. (iii) The petitioner will be well represented on each and every date and if he fails to do so on two consecutive dates, his bail bond will be liable to be cancelled by the Court concerned. AnilKrSinha/- (Vikash Jain, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 395

Statute Text:
Section 395 of the Indian Penal Code. Dacoity. Whoever commits dacoity shall be punished with imprisonment for life, or with rigorous imprisonment for a term which may extend to ten years, and shall also be liable to fine.