Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22395 of 2012 (3) dt.28-06-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.22395 of 2012 ====================================================== Shankar Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.15384 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Madan Choudhary, 2. Raj Kumar Choudhary, 3. Bhola Choudhary, 4. Manoj Choudhary 5. Anil Kumar Choudhary alias Anil Choudhary .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 3 28-06-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and section 27 of the Arms Act. The accusation against the petitioner Shankar Choudhary is to have caused fire arm injury to the husband of the informant. Injury has been found to be grievous. It is alleged against other petitioners that they were accomplices of Shankar Choudhary. The case was instituted in 2005. It is submitted that the investigation is still pending and Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.22395 of 2012 (3) dt.28-06-2012 for considerable period the police stayed the arrest of the petitioners. Considering the nature of accusation against petitioner Shankar Choudhary, this court is not inclined to grant him anticipatory bail. His prayer for anticipatory bail is rejected. So far as other petitioners are concerned, since there is no specific accusation of assault and investigation is pending, let the above named petitioners except petitioner Shankar Choudhary be released on anticipatory bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of 12 weeks from today on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Gaya in connection with Rampur P.S. Case No. 36 of 2005 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 342

Statute Text:
Section 342 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully confining any person. Whoever wrongfully confines any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to one year, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.