Case Facts:
Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43836 of 2012 (2) dt.11-12-2012 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.43836 of 2012 ====================================================== Pappu Sah .... .... Petitioner Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party ====================================================== Appearance : For the Petitioner : Mr. Arvind Kumar Mouar For the State : Mr. Anuj Kumar Shrivastva, A.P.P. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE CHAKRADHARI SHARAN SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 11-12-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned Additional Public Prosecutor for the State. The petitioner is an accused in Alamganj P.S. Case No. 219 of 2012 registered for the offences punishable under various sections including [STATUTE] . The petitioner is in jail custody since 28.08.2012 and seeks regular bail in the present application. As per the allegation, the petitioner came in inebriated state to the informant’s house and demanded a sum of rupees thirty thousand at the point of pistol. He is also said to have assaulted the informant with fists. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that the prosecution story as narrated in the written report of informant is improbable. He further submits that the informant runs a ‘Toddy’ shop in Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.43836 of 2012 (2) dt.11-12-2012 front of the petitioner’s house. The same informant had earlier got instituted an F.I.R. vide Alamganj P.S. Case No. 74 of 2011 under various sections in which the petitioner is on bail. Regard being had to the facts and circumstances, let the petitioner Pappu Sah be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/- (ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned A.C.J.M., Patna City in connection with Alamganj P.S. Case No. 219 of 2012. Saif/- (Chakradhari Sharan Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 379

Statute Text:
Section 379 of the Indian Penal Code. Theft. Whoever commits theft shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, or with fine, or with both.