Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.24355 of 2012 ====================================================== Jitendra Kumar Sharma .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 02/ 19-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioner is apprehending his arrest in a case registered for the offences punishable under [STATUTE] and 135 of the Bihar Electricity Act. The accusation is of unauthorized consumption of the electric energy. The loss has been calculated to the tune of Rs.2,40,000/- when the arrears is of Rs.1,64,268/-, total amounting to Rs.4,04,268/-. The petitioner undertakes to deposit 50% of the loss amount i.e. Rs.1,20,000/- within a period of four months before the concerned authorities. Considering the aforesaid facts, let the above named petitioner be released on anticipatory bail in the event of his arrest or surrender before the learned court Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.24355 of 2012 (2) dt.19-07-2012 2/2 below within a period of twelve weeks from today, on furnishing bail bond of Rs.10,000/- (Ten thousand) with two sureties of the like amount each to the satisfaction of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Aurangabad in connection with Baroon P.S. Case No. 260 of 2011, subject to the conditions as laid down under Section 438(2) of the Cr.P.C. The bail bond of the petitioner will be accepted provisionally till deposit of the aforesaid amount. DKS/ (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.