Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.28643 of 2012 ====================================================== Navin Kumar Singh @ Navin Singh & Ors. .... .... Petitioners. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== with Criminal Miscellaneous No.30162 of 2012 ====================================================== Shyamdeo Yadav .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 13-08-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioners and the State. The petitioners are apprehending their arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] . It is alleged that when police went to investigate a case of dacoity-cum-murder in the house of Harbans Singh then the villagers pelted stones causing injury to five police personnels when the police resorted to two rounds of firing in air. It is submitted that when dacoity was committed in the house of Harbans Singh his wife was Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.28643 of 2012 (2) dt.13-08-2012 2 / 2 2 killed and police did not reach to the village then for delayed reaching of the police in the village the whole villagers protested for which frivolous case has been lodged. The statements have been made in paragraph nos. 16 and 6 of the petitions respectively that the petitioners have no criminal antecedent. Considering the nature of accusation in the background of public protest, let the petitioners Navin Kumar Singh @ Navin Singh, Shashi Bhushan Singh, Yogendra Singh, Binay Kumar Singh @ Vinay Kumar Singh and Shyamdeo Yadav be released on bail in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned court below within a period of twelve weeks from today in connection with Jamhore P.S. Case No. 41 of 2012 on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten Thousand) each with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of the learned C.J.M. Aurangabad, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Code of Criminal Procedure. U.K./- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, 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.