Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18131 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ashutosh Kumar @ Mukhiya Kumar 2. Uday Sah 3. Raja Babu @ Raja Kumar 4. Chhote Lal Sah @ Chhote Lal Kumar Sah 5. Arjun Sah @ Arjun Kumar Sah 6. Sunil Kumar 7. Anil Kumar Sah .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 15-05-2012 Petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . and Section 3(1)(X) of the S.C. & S.T.(Prevention of Atrocities) Act. It is alleged by the informant that the informant went on the order of the BDO, Sour Bazar for physical verification of the pension holders under the social security scheme when he was being manhandled, assaulted and abused by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that one Birbal Ram lodged a case making Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18131 of 2012 (2) dt.15-05-2012 2 / 2 2 accusation of assault and committing theft on 13.10.2011 at 11:30 A.M. though the alleged occurrence took place on 08.10.2011 and the present informant lodged the case for the occurrence of 08.10.2011 on 13.10.2011 at 3:00 P.M. Considering the delayed lodging of the F.I.R. by the informant which clouds the bonafide of the accusation, let the petitioners, above named, 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, Saharsa in connection with Sour Bazar P.S. Case No. 289 of 2011. Shageer/- (Dinesh Kumar 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.