Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.18910 of 2012 ====================================================== Vijay Singh @ Vijay Kumar Singh .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 28-06-2012 The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 25(1-B)A, 26 and 35 of the Arms Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner seeks permission to withdraw this application with a liberty to seek regular bail, which will be considered by the learned court below without being prejudiced by the order of this Court keeping in view of the fact that the person, from whose possession recovery has been made, has been granted bail vide Cr. Misc. No. 20524 of 2012, I see no reason for learned court below not to give same privilege to the petitioner if the petitioner surrenders before the learned court below within a period of six weeks from today in connection with Shyampur Bhataha P.S. Case No. 75 Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.18910 of 2012 (2) dt.28-06-2012 2/2 of 2011 pending in the court of learned Sub- divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sheohar. With the aforesaid observation, this application is permitted to be withdrawn. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioner. DKS/ (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J.) . .

Applicable IPC Section: 212

Statute Text:
Section 212 of the Indian Penal Code. Harbouring an offender, If the offence be capital. Whenever an offence has been committed, whoever harbours or conceals a person whom he knows or has reason to believe to be the offender, with the intention of screening him from legal punishment; if a capital offence — shall, if the offence is punishable with death, be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to five years, and shall also be liable to fine; if punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment — and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment for life, or with imprisonment which may extend to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to three years, and shall also be liable to fine; and if the offence is punishable with imprisonment which may extend to one year, and not to ten years, shall be punished with imprisonment of the description provided for the offence for a term which may extend to one-fourth part of the longest term of imprisonment provided for the offence, or with fine, or with both. "Offence" in this section includes any act committed at any place out of India, which, if committed in India, would be punishable under any of the following sections, namely, 302, 304, 382, 392, 393, 394, 395, 396, 397, 398, 399, 402, 435, 436, 449, 450, 457, 458, 459 and 460; and every such act shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be punishable as if the accused person had been guilty of it in India.