Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.20340 of 2012 ====================================================== Ripu Jha S/O Awadhesh Jha, Resident of Village- Baikunthpur, P.S.- Rajapakar, Distt.- Vaishali. .... .... Petitioner. Versus The State of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party. ====================================================== PRESENT: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE S.N. HUSSAIN ORDER 3 06-06-2012 Heard learned counsel for the petitioner and learned counsel for the State. Petitioner is an accused for offences punishable under [STATUTE] as well as Section 27 of the Arms Act. Learned counsel for the petitioner submits that specific allegation of assaulting the informant is upon another co-accused person whereas there are general and omnibus allegations against all the 10 accused persons, including the petitioner. Learned counsel for the petitioner further submits that he is the nephew of the informant and there is a family dispute between them due to which he had been implicated by the informant in another case also. Learned counsel for the petitioner also avers that he is in custody since April, 2011. In the aforesaid facts and circumstances, this petition is Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.20340 of 2012 (3) dt.06-06-2012 2 / 2 2 allowed. Let above named petitioner be released on bail on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000.00 (Rupees ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of Chief Judicial Magistrate, Vaishali at Hajipur in connection with Mahua P.S. Case No. 527 of 2009. Sunil/- (S.N. Hussain, 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.