Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12887 of 2012 (3) dt.30-05-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.12887 of 2012 ====================================================== Jagdish Mahto .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE GOPAL PRASAD ORAL ORDER 3 30-05-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. This is a petition for grant of anticipatory bail in a case under [STATUTE] and 3(X), 3(XV), 3(2- iii) of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that fifteen persons entered into the house of the informant and destroyed the articles as well as burnt the house. Leaned counsel for the State submits that there is nothing in the case diary to suggest that the articles were destroyed or the house was set on fire. It is further alleged that the petitioner is the order giver. Hence, having regard to the facts and circumstances of the case, the trial court being satisfied with the age of the petitioner about eighty years, let the above named petitioner be Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.12887 of 2012 (3) dt.30-05-2012 released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of four weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Madhubani in connection with Khajauli P. S. Case No. 144 of 2011 subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr. P. C. Kundan/- (Gopal Prasad, 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.