Case Facts:
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT PATNA Criminal Miscellaneous No.7023 of 2012 ====================================================== 1. Pramod Kumar 2. Haider Ali. 3. Amjad Hussain. .... .... Petitioner/s Versus The State Of Bihar .... .... Opposite Party/s ====================================================== CORAM: HONOURABLE MR. JUSTICE DINESH KUMAR SINGH ORAL ORDER 5 05-07-2012 Heard learned counsels for the petitioner and the State. The petitioners are apprehending arrest in connection with Complaint Case NO. 24(0) of 2011 in which cognizance has been taken under [STATUTE] pending in the court of learned Chief Judicial Magistrate, Bhojpur, Ara. The accusation is of making false statement before the Sessions Judge about filing the earlier anticipatory bail application in Charpokhari P.S. Case No. 190 of 2008. Though, earlier anticipatory bail application was rejected by the learned Sessions Judge when the advocate of the accused and the accused in the aforesaid case were asked to file show cause but they had not filed any show cause. In the circumstances, petitioners are permitted to file their show cause before learned Sessions Judge within a period of Patna High Court Cr.Misc. No.7023 of 2012 (5) dt.05-07-2012 2/2 three weeks from today and after filing of the show cause, the petitioners will surrender before the learned court below within a period of six weeks when regular bail of the petitioner will be considered by learned court below keeping in view of the fact that the show cause of the advocate on record was accepted by learned court below. With the above observation, this application is, accordingly, disposed off. Let the order be transmitted to the learned court below through fax at the cost of the petitioners. Amrendra/- (Dinesh Kumar Singh, J)

Applicable IPC Section: 182

Statute Text:
Section 182 of the Indian Penal Code. Giving false information to a public servant in order to cause him to use his lawful power to the injury or annoyance of any person. Whoever gives to any public servant any information which he knows or believes to be false, intending thereby to cause, or knowing it to be likely that he will thereby cause such public servant: to do or omit anything which such public servant ought not to do or omit if the true state of facts respecting which such information is given were known by him, or to use the lawful power of such public servant to the injury or annoyance of any person, shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both.