Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.70 of 2012 Vinod Paswan Versus The State Of Bihar ---------------------------------- 2/ 5.1.2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that an assembly of hundred male and forty to fifty female blocked NH 28 for six hours since protesting against irregular distribution of BPL coupons. It is alleged against the petitioner that he was leading the mob in which several vehicles’ glasses were broken. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioner that in the FIR it is alleged that the petitioner is Mukhia but actually petitioner’s wife is Mukhiya. Considering the fact that accusation is against the mob of 150 persons and the protest was being made for irregularity in distribution of BPL coupons, let the above named petitioner be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the court below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing the bail bond of Rs.10000/(ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of C.J.M. Samastipur in Tajpur P.S. Case no. 243 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. Anil/ ( Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.)

Applicable IPC Section: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.