Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.31901 of 2012 ====================================================== Deepak Sharma & Anr. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 05-11-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and 3(i)(x) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged that on the order of the petitioner Deepak Sharma, Sanjay Kumar Rai and Amrendra Kumar(non- petitioner) set the hutment of the informant on fire causing damage to the property when petitioner Pankaj Sharma was identified by the informant in the flash light. It is orally submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that informant does not belong to the S.C./S.T. community and accusation of setting fire is against others when Deepak Sharma earlier lodged Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 165 of 2008 against the informant. Considering the same, let the petitioners namely Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.31901 of 2012 (2) dt.05-11-2012 2 / 2 2 1. Deepak Sharma 2. Pankaj Sharma @ Pankaj Kumar, in the event of their arrest or surrender before the Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, be released on anticipatory bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs. 10,000/-(ten thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Begusarai in connection with Bhagwanpur P.S. Case No. 34 of 2012. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 149

Statute Text:
Section 149 of the Indian Penal Code. If an offence be committed by any member of an unlawful assembly, every other member of such assembly shall be guilty of the offence. If an offence is committed by any member of an unlawful assembly in prosecution of the common object of that assembly, or such as the members of that assembly knew to be likely to be committed in prosecution of that object, every person who, at the time of the committing of that offence, is a member of the same assembly, is guilty of that offence.