Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.14254 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Ashok Singh 2. Shambhu Singh. 3. Murlidhar Singh. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 2 19-04-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and Section 3 (I) (X) of the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act. The accusation is of giving Rs. 50,000/- advance for transfer of the land but neither the land was transferred nor the money was returned and the petitioner also abused the informant by calling caste name. It is submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that at earlier point of time, the petitioner filed a complaint against Rajnish Kumar in which the other petitioners were the witnesses hence Rajnish Kumar set up the informant to lodged the present case. Considering the nature of accusation, let the above Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.14254 of 2012 (2) dt.19-04-2012 2/2 named petitioners be released on anticipatory bail, in the event of arrest or surrender before the learned Court below within a period of 12 weeks from today, 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 Chief Judicial Magistrate, Hajipur in connection with Sadar Hajipur P.S. Case No. 56 of 2012, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) Cr.P.C. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 341

Statute Text:
Section 341 of the Indian Penal Code. Wrongfully restraining any person. Whoever wrongfully restrains any person shall be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine which may extend to five hundred rupees, or with both.