Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14496 of 2012 ====================================================== Raghan Yadav .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 23-04-2012 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 accusation is that 7-8 persons variously armed with rifle, gun and pistol came and caused firearm injury to the father of the informant. Six persons were named in the F.I.R. excluding the petitioner. Subsequently, the informant filed protest petition but did not raise any suspicion against the petitioner. Subsequently named of the petitioner sprang up in confessions of Babloo Yadav and Diwakar Yadav before the police. Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14496 of 2012 (2) dt.23-04-2012 2/2 It appears that Diwakar Yadav has been granted regular bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 40317 of 2011. I see no reason for the learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Ghoswari P.S. Case No. 54 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Barh. With the aforesaid observation, this application is disposed of. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) .

Applicable IPC Section: 148

Statute Text:
Section 148 of the Indian Penal Code. Rioting armed with deadly Weapon. Whoever is guilty of rioting, being armed with a deadly weapon or with anything which, used as a weapon of offence, is likely to cause death, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.